Frances Walker: Aberdeen Beach

Frances Walker: Aberdeen BeachFrances Walker CBE, RSA, RSW, D. Litt, Hon FECA is an artist who has lived and worked in Aberdeen for 60 years. Born in Kirkcaldy in 1930 Frances Walker studied at Edinburgh College of Art and after attending Moray House College of Education was sole teacher of art for all schools in Harris and North Uist, Western isles 1956 1958 then lecturer in drawing and painting at Grays School of Art, Aberdeen 1958 1985. Frances was one of the founder members of

Caldic Collection

Steadman’s wry illustrations are both entirely surreal and endearingly honest

an omnipresent muse forever resting in the artist’s studio

‘All Cats are Grey at Night’ is proverbial and complete in the meaning – in the dark we are all the same

Picasso worked on the ‘347 Suite’ at the age of 86

Two strong threads within my work of recent years run through the suite

Frances Walker’s submission for the BP mural was a small triptych oil study

Paper Size: 56 x 76 cm Medium: Lithograph with Screenprint Edition Size: 20

We regard this weighty stone through its built form

“My style has all just come together

5 x 50 cm Medium: Screenprint Edition Size: 90 Year: 2011

but only recently have the ‘Presley roots’ been traced to our very own Aberdeenshire