Ethel Walker
Ethel Walker was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1941. She studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1959-1964, where her tutor David Donaldson, the Queen's portrait painter, would remind her "Rembrandt's died, lassie. It's your turn now". After graduating, Ethel briefly taught in Glasgow before moving to Edinburgh to become Head of the Art Department at St Hilary's Girls School. When Ethel was twenty-seven she came to the realisation that to paint she needed to do so full-time, so stopped teaching, and committed herself fully to her art.
Ethel's work has been described as 'Weather Pictures'. Her paintings focus on the wild and stormy elements that so often lash the West Coast of Scotland. The ever changing quality of light on the hills and sea that surround her home in Argyll are a constant inspiration.
Ethel exhibits regularly in both London and Scotland, and her work is in many public collections including, the Bank of Scotland, Lillie Art Gallery, City of Edinburgh Art Collection, Heriot Watt University and the Royal Bank of Scotland. Her work is also in numerous private collections worldwide.
Ethel Walker has been exhibiting with Thackeray Gallery since 1982.
