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