Ruth Walker

Born at Maison Dieu Manse, Brechin, in 1942, Ruth Walker attended Edinburgh College of Art at both diploma and post-diploma level. After leaving college, she practised lithography and studied stained glass with Patrick Reyntiens and went on to design and make windows for churches in Staffordshire and for a house in the Republic of Ireland. She taught printmaking at Mary Ward College, Windsor and Nottingham, from 1967 to 1975, and then art at her old school, St Leonards in St Andrews, until 1984.

Ruth has exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, the Society of Scottish Artists, Visual Arts Scotland and the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art and has held one-man shows at the Midland Group Gallery and Mary Ward College, both Nottingham, the Loomshop Gallery, Lower Largo, Fife, the Torrance Gallery and Gallery 41, Edinburgh, and Kincaple House and the Byre Theatre, St Andrews.

Group shows have included those at the Seagate Gallery, Dundee, Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre, the Byre Theatre, St Andrews, Pittenweem Festival, Fife, and Perth Theatre. Involvement in group shows with the ‘Artists Lunch’ includes those at Kirriemuir, Stenton Gallery, East Lothian, Lillie Art Gallery, Glasgow, Discovery Point, Dundee, and the Old Bakehouse, Brechin