Ethel Walker

ETHEL WALKER

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front cover: Dark Blue, Seil Island – oil on board – 53 x 66cm

THE GOLDEN HOURS 7 - 24 November 2023

PREVIEW DAYS Thursday 2 - Saturday 4 November: Thursday - Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 11am – 4pm Private Viewings Available The entire exhibition can also be viewed at www.thackeraygallery.com All work is available to purchase on receipt of this catalogue

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When you first see Ethel Walker’s work, you would be forgiven for believing it is all about the ‘moment’, the immediacy of the light, the rain, the clouds passing across, the reflection but, in truth, it is so much more than this.

It is about a sense of place. A sense of being in the place, as well as the place being part of the history of the landscape.

The grandeur, the majesty, the ancient landforms, appearing, and disappearing with the everchanging weather.

It is also about a sense of light. Skies dominate Ethel’s work, and in her own words “The light on the land can appear to change contours, solid can seem unsubstantial, and air, sea and stone merge into an interdependent whole.”

To create works of art the way Ethel does, and has done for over 50 years, takes courage, humbleness, respect for her environment, and overall an extraordinary gift of daring to work with what is essential.To strip back to an almost abstract sense of what is there, what she sees, what she feels, and always staying true to the concept ‘less is more’.

It is our greatest privilege to represent Ethel’s paintings, and to know her. Her highly established reputation is firmly set centre stage and this is her time, again, to show us all what she has been up to over the last two years.

This new collection takes my breath away.

detail behind: Craignish – oil on board – 61 x 122cm

Sarah Macdonald-Brown, 2023

The Golden Hours 7 - 24 November 2023

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Horizon. West of Iona oil on board – 61 x 101cm

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April Sky oil on board – 59 x 64cm

Incoming Tide Sea’s Edge oil on board – 43 x 46cm

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Hills of Mull oil on board – 21 x 26cm

Green Gold Evening oil on board – 56 x 59cm

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Sky and Sea oil on board – 61 x 71cm

High Summer, Craignish oil on board – 66 x 82cm

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Ebb Tide oil on board – 62 x 122cm

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Dark Blue, Seil Island oil on board – 53 x 66cm

Low Cloud over Arran oil on board – 51 x 66cm

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Cloud and Pale gold light, Crinan oil on board – 122 x 182cm

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Autumn Evening oil on board – 18 x 23cm

Golden Pond oil on board – 82 x 66cm

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Pale Silver, Windswept Cloud oil on board – 62 x 122cm

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Snow on Jura oil on board – 33 x 31cm

Loch Creran, Glencoe oil on board – 56 x 64cm

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Craignish oil on board – 61 x 122cm

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Rain on the River oil on board – 61 x 66cm

Rannoch Water oil on board – 46 x 43cm

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Light on the water, Kilberry oil on board – 122 x 182cm

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Sun through Cloud oil on board – 43 x 46cm

Mountain and Moor oil on board – 71 x 81cm

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Easdale Island oil on board – 32 x 76cm

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West Coast. Mull oil on board – 61 x 122cm

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BIOGRAPHIES 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, Galash-iels; 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; Glasgow Caledonian, New York.

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; The St Rule Club, St Andrews; Nevision Ltd; Walter Scott and Partners Ltd; GCU, New York.

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.

Ethel Walker has been exhibiting with Thackeray Gallery since 1994.

Headland, Loch Na Keal Mull oil on board – 38 x 32cm

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