Frances Walker
RSA, RSW, CBE Born: 1930Born in Kirkcaldy in 1930 Frances Walker studied at Edinburgh College of Art and then took up a post as visiting teacher of art for the Hebrides. This experience engendered in her a life-long love of wild and desolate places and since then she has chosen to depict the most remote landscapes, her compositions usually based on coastal reaches, craggy rocks and deserted beaches.
Moving to Aberdeen, Walker took up a post at Gray's School of Artwhere she taught for many years. After retirement she has since divided her time between Aberdeen and the Western Isles, especially Tiree, where she owns a thatched cottage, but more recently has also travelled further afield - her latest inspiration being the even wilder and more desolate landscape of the Antarctic and South Georgia. A suite of Antarctic paintings were recently bequeathed and exhibited as part of a major exhibition, Among the Polar Ice at The McManus in Dundee (September 2019 - March 2020).
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Frances Walker in Orkney View details
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In from the Sea View details
Frances Walker
In from the Sea
c.1975watercolourH:56cm W:39cmSoldWester Tillyshogle Croft View detailsFrances Walker
Wester Tillyshogle Croft
c.1970soil on boardH:30.5cm W:40cmSoldLow Tide at the Brough View detailsFrances Walker - Printmaker
Low Tide at the Brough
1981collograph and watercolourH:74cm W:106cmSoldLoading
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