Ethel Walker 2017

ETHEL WALKER

7 - 24 november 2017

Catching the Light 7 - 24 november 2017

‘Nature is so powerful,so strong.

Capturing the essence is not easy – your work becomes a dance with light and weather.

It takes you to a place within yourself ’

frontispiece: Evening, Shuna Sound - oil on board - 90 x 130cm

Annie Leibovitz

©THACKERAY GALLERY, 2017 Photography By DOUGLAS ATFIELD, 2017

Across Loch Fyne oil on board - 38 x 76cm

Blue Hills oil on board - 23 x 27cm

Boathouse, Jura oil on board - 18 x 34cm

Cumulus oil on board - 67 x 73cm

Dawn, Islay oil on board - 61 x 79cm

Easdale Island II oil on board - 59 x 61cm

Evening, Shuna Sound oil on board - 90 x 130cm

Glen Kinglas oil on board - 66 x 81cm

Gold Sky, Lynn of Lorne oil on board - 122 x 122cm

Headland, Evening Sky oil on board - 59 x 86cm

Hill Croft, Mull oil on board - 15 x 20cm

Island Sunset oil on board - 38 x 41cm

Kintraw, Head of Loch Craignish oil on board - 61 x 122cm

Kylesku oil on board - 49 x 74cm

Light on water, Craignish oil on board - 92 x 122cm

Moment After Rain, Loch Fyne oil on board - 92 x 122cm

Moorings, Autumn Evening oil on board - 33 x 33cm

Mountain Pass oil on board - 92 x 122cm

Mull of Kintyre oil on block board - 92 x 92cm

Rocky Hillside oil on board - 27 x 27cm

Sands oil on board - 60 x 76cm

Seil Island oil on board - 18 x 34cm

September Light oil on board - 42 x 56cm

Shore Mist, Easdale oil on board - 92 x 122cm

Snow, Plockton oil on canvas - 18 x 24cm

Storm Cloud, Dark Blue oil on board - 51 x 51cm

Sunny Bay, Kintyre oil on board - 56 x 61cm

The Lady’s Rock, Sound of Mull oil on board - 61 x 123cm

Towards the Islands, Sound of Jura oil on board - 90 x 130cm

Winter Mountain, Glencoe oil on board - 52 x 71cm

BIOGRAPHY Ethel Walker was born in Ayrshire, Scotland in 1941. She studied Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art between 1959 and 1964.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS FROM 1970 – PRESENT: Great King Street Gallery, Edinburgh; Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie; Scottish College of Textiles, Galashiels; Torrance Gallery, Edinburgh; Eden Court Theatre, Inverness; Kes Mosaics, Edinburgh; Broughton gallery, Lanarkshire; Pitlochry Festival Theatre; Gladstones Land, Edinburgh; Mclan Gallery, Oban; The Gatehouse Gallery, Glasgow; Macaulay Gallery, Stenton; Flying Colours, Edinburgh; Rowan gallery, Drymen; Tolquhoun Gallery, Aberdeenshire; Ancrum Gallery, Jedburgh; The Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Eton; Corrymella Scott Gallery, Newcastle; Fettes College, Edinburgh; Roger Billcliffe, Glasgow; Thackeray Gallery, London.

COLLECTIONS: Bank of Scotland; Herriot Watt University; Lillie Art Gallery; Royal Bank of Scotland; Britoil; Trustees Savings Bank; Argyllshire County Collection; Sarah Lee Holdings; City of Edinburgh Art Collection; P&O; Scottish Power; Nomura Securities.

And in many private and corporate collections throughout the UK, Europe, USA, Hong Kong and Australia.

AWARDS: Anne Redpath Award, Scottish Society of Women Artists; Glasgow Herald painting Competition, (RGI); Alva Computers Purchase Prize, Scottish Society of Artists & Craftsmen, (SAAC); The Whyte & Mackay Group Award; The Scottish Provident Award; Most well received work, (SAAC); Barclay Lennie Award, Glasgow Society of Women Artists, (GWSA); Mabel McKinlay Award, RGI Annual Exhibition; The St Rule Club, St Andrews; Nevision Ltd, amongst others.

Ethel Walker has been exhibiting with Thackeray Gallery since 1994