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Frances Walker at 90
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Frances Walker RSA in Orkney. Photograph by John Cumming.
We are delighted to wish Frances Walker RSA a happy 90th birthday this August.
One of Scotland’s most highly-regarded artists, Frances Walker is a painter and printmaker based in Aberdeen. Known for her elegant, evocative studies of the Scottish landscape, Walker's oeuvre spans not only decades but continents, with projects undertaken in Iceland, Finland, Antarctica and Yugoslavia amongst other locations. Wistful and luminous but always precisely observed, Walker's paintings and prints present the landscape as a treasured space of endless wonder.
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Frances Walker RSA painting in the studio. Photograph by John Rodger.
Born in Kirkcaldy in 1930, Walker studied at Edinburgh College of Art where she was taught by Sir William Gillies RSA. After graduating she travelled through Europe before becoming the sole teacher of art in Harris and North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. She latterley took a position as Lecturer in Drawing and Painting at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen.
Walker's experience of teaching art in the Hebrides led to a life-long love of wild and desolate places. Since then, she has chosen to depict the most remote landscapes and her compositions are often based on coastal reaches, rock formations and isolated beaches. Walker divides her time between Aberdeen and the Western Isles, especially Tiree, where she owns a thatched cottage.
A founding member of Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen, Walker has been instrumental in the resurgence of interest in traditional printmaking techniques in Scotland. A printmaker of virtuosic ability, in recent years Walker has focused on the medium as her primary mode for conveying the beauty and turbulence of the landscape.
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Screenprinting at Peacock Printmakers with Arthur Watson PPRSA. Photograph by Andy Dewar.
In August 2021 The Academicians' Gallery will host an exhibition charting Walker's illustrious career.
Walker was elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1970 and became a Member in 1983. Through her long association with the RSA, she has been a generous supporter and promoter of the Academy. In advance of Walker's 2021 exhibition, we are pleased to continue to work closely with her. A selection of her works are currently available for sale.
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Available Works
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Frances Walker RSATiree Window, 2017Etching
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Frances Walker RSAFerry Crossing the Sound, 2018Screenprint33 x 97 cmEdition of 40£ 800.00
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Frances Walker RSASunday Afternoon on the Sound, 2018Screenprint33 x 97 cmEdition of 40£ 800.00
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Frances Walker RSAWinter Shore Walk, 2000Monoprint60 x 150 cm£ 5,250.00
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Frances Walker RSAView From BorerayMixed media46 x 246 cm£ 3,400.00
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Frances Walker RSAAntarctic Shore WalkScreenprint60 x 184 cmEdition of 36£ 1,800.00
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Frances Walker RSAAntarctic Refuge HutLithograph and screenprint80 x 100 cmEdition of 16£ 1,200.00
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Frances Walker RSACrossing to FinlagganCopper-plate etching and acquatintEdition of 30£ 1,200.00
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