Frances Walker: Ferry Crossing The Sound

Frances Walker: Ferry Crossing The SoundFrances Walker CBE, RSA, RSW, D. Litt, Hon FECA is an artist who has lived and worked in Aberdeen for 60 years. Born in Kirkcaldy in 1930 Frances Walker studied at Edinburgh College of Art and after attending Moray House College of Education was sole teacher of art for all schools in Harris and North Uist, Western isles 1956 1958 then lecturer in drawing and painting at Grays School of Art, Aberdeen 1958 1985. Frances was one of the founder members of

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Our time together was filled with laughter and was a serious pleasure

an impressive suite of ten colour etchings with aquatint inspired by Gaelic poetry and sketchbooks containing daily observations and experimental work

‘Luxury Pool II’ is one of a series of 30

Paper Size: 49 x 68 cm Medium: Digital Print with Screenprint Edition Size: 22

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These very graphic prints influenced by traditional Japanese theatre hark back to Douthwaite's own dance training and the works capture the state of exaggerated costume and extreme theatre

'Trio' is a variation on the plate for the same poem in Valerie Gillies' book 'The Chanter's Tune'

The left panel is numbered

mirroring the vitality that Greg invested in the new medium – a treat for all

There are also a number of archetypal symbols: the cross

Medium: Screenprint