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Walker, Frances, CBE RSA RSW D.Litt Hon FECA

b. 1930

Frances Walker trained at Edinburgh College of Art and at Moray House College of Education in Edinburgh. She spent a period as a visiting art teacher at schools in the Western Isles before moving to Aberdeen where she proceeded to teach drawing and painting at Gray's School of Art. In addition to painting she is also involved in printmaking. Her work tends to focus on the Aberdeen area and also on Tiree and Orkney. She has exhibited at the RSA from 1960, she became an Associate Member of the RSA in 1970 and an Academician in 1983.



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Foreshore at Footdee

This painting is based on working drawings made on the foreshore at Footdee, Aberdeen, see letter from the artist to the RSA dated 2003-07-26 in…

An image from the RSA collection.

Baltic Progress at Helsinki

Executed whilst the artist was an ARSA. She was awarded a Gillies Travelling Award in1978 which she used to visit Finland in 1979. A hand-written…

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In a Hailuoto House

Executed whilst the artist was an ARSA. She was awarded a Gillies Travelling Award in1978 which she used to visit Finland in 1979. A hand-written…

An image from the RSA collection.

Breakfast Table

Executed whilst the artist was an ARSA. She was awarded a Gillies Travelling Award in1978 which she used to visit Finland in 1979. A hand-written…

An image from the RSA collection.

Window in Kemijavi

Executed whilst the artist was an ARSA. She was awarded a Gillies Travelling Award in1978 which she used to visit Finland in 1979. A hand-written…

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Snow Squalls over Tiree

The original artwork for the RSA Official Christmas card for 1994

An image from the RSA collection.

Portcullis House Rooftops

Part of a series of six prints commissioned by the House of Commons to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and capture images of Portcullis House.…

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Finnish landscape

Executed whilst the artist was an ARSA. She was awarded a Gillies Travelling Award in1978 which she used to visit Finland in 1979. A hand-written…

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Finnish Interior

Executed whilst the artist was an ARSA. She was awarded a Gillies Travelling Award in1978 which she used to visit Finland in 1979. A hand-written…

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Machair Walk

inspired by the landscape of the Machair Walk on South Uist. The work is discussed in Professor Duncan Macmillan HRSA's essay 'Land and Sea, Place,…

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Rock Pool Cleft

the work is based on drawings made on Tiree and was printed at Peacock Printmakers in Aberdeen

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working study for 'Atlantic Watch'

An image from the RSA collection.
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