Frances Walker - Printmaker
RSA, RSW, CBE Born: 1930Place of Birth: Kirkcaldy
Born 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 Art, where she taught for many years. Since retirement, she has 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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Finnish Interior View details
Frances Walker - Printmaker
Finnish Interior
1979screenprint, Artist's ProofH:49cm W:60cm£1,250Frances Walker in Orkney View detailsFrances Walker
Frances Walker in Orkney
c.1981Photograph: John CummingWindow in Kemijarvi View detailsFrances Walker - Printmaker
Window in Kemijarvi
1978lithograph and screenprint Artist ProofH:50.5cm W:39cm£1,000 (framed)Portcullis House Rooftops View detailsFrances Walker - Printmaker
Portcullis House Rooftops
2012screenprintH:36.5cm W:50cm£450 framedThe Deserted House View detailsFrances Walker - Printmaker
The Deserted House
1978lithograph and screenprintH:32cm W:53cm£1,600 framed-
Green Geo View details
Frances Walker - Printmaker
Green Geo
c.1985screenprintH:107cm W:58.5cmSoldLow Tide at the Brough View detailsFrances Walker - Printmaker
Low Tide at the Brough
1981collograph and watercolourH:74cm W:106cmSoldRock Pool Cleft View detailsFrances Walker - Printmaker
Rock Pool Cleft
1996steel plate etching and watercolour hand tintH:88cm W:61cmSoldAchmelvich Landscape View detailsFrances Walker - Printmaker
Achmelvich Landscape
2012etching and chine colleH:79cm W:56cmSoldPetrel, South Georgia View detailsFrances Walker - Printmaker
Petrel, South Georgia
2010etching and aquatintH:40cm W:71cmSoldGrytviken, South Georgia View detailsFrances Walker - Printmaker
Grytviken, South Georgia
etching and aquatint, edition of 12H:22.5cm W:55cmSoldLoading
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