Winter Room

Artist Frances Walker (Kirkcaldy, Scotland, born 1930)

Datec.1968

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings

Dimensions89.5 x 119cm
Frame Size: 108.5 x 138cm

AcquisitionThe Scottish Arts Council Bequest, 1997.

LocationOn Display - Gallery 15

Object numberABDAG014397

About MeScottish artist Frances Walker had built a reputation for painting sparse scenes of Scottish landscape. She is particularly well known for her studies of Tiree, where she has had a home for many years.

This painting dates from much earlier in her career. Walker first moved to Aberdeen in 1958, taking up a teaching post at Gray's School of Art. The scene is the sitting room in an elegant and spacious Aberdeen flat in Beaconsfield Place, which she rented at the time. The "winter" of the title is suggested by the muted palette, the grey light outside the window and the black and white studies that decorate the walls. The painting is a sort of self portrait, in that the still life objects reveal the artist who is of course in this room, albeit outwith the field of view.

Although now retired from teaching, Frances Walker continues to live and work as a full time artist in Aberdeen.

Exhibitions

View of Aberdeen