Frances Walker, who trained at ECA, started her working life as an art teacher on the Outer Hebrides where she formed a lifelong love of remote, wild places. Much of her focus is on Scottish landscapes and terrains, but she has travelled frequently, including to such desolate locations including Antarctica. She is known for her prints and paintings of coastal landscapes, rocks and beaches which are as much studies of the weather as of human activity in these peripheral sites.

Frances Walker CBE RSA RSW, born 1930

Frances Walker was born in the Scottish town of Kirkcaldy. She is an painter, draughtsperson, printmaker, and teacher. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art before becoming a teacher. She was a founding member of Peacock Print Studio, which contributes to artistic practise and development in Aberdeen. Walker's paintings and prints depict wild and desolate landscapes. While much of her work focuses on Scottish landscapes and terrains, she frequently travels to remote locations for inspiration, including Antarctica and South Georgia. Walker has shown with the RSA and RSW regularly, in addition to a number of solo exhibitions. In 1991, she was featured in the RWA exhibition 'Scottish Art in the Twentieth Century'.