'Weather Picture' artist Ethel Walker features this Tuesday at McTear's

Ethel Walker studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1959-1964 under tutor David Donaldson, famous for painting the Queen’s portrait. Walker began her career as a teacher, first in Glasgow and then as the Head of the Art Department at St Hilary’s Girls School. At the age of twenty-seven, she realised that she was an artist first and devoted herself to painting. 

The phrase ‘weather picture’ has often been used in conjunction with Walker’s work, as indeed her paintings often represent the stormy sea off the West Coast of Scotland, near her home in Argyll. The artist’s oeuvre is not limited to landscape subjects; Walker paints still lifes, usually floral studies. Walker is one of the most successful female
painters working in Scotland today, regularly exhibiting in London and Scotland. Her work is held in many private and public collections, including the Bank of Scotland, City of
Edinburgh Art Collection and the Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh.

 

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