Deborah Walker RI RSMA | Mall Galleries

Detail

Watercolour

H112cm x W143cm
Corners of the Evening

Watercolour

H116cm x W146cm
Littoral Zone

Watercolour

H100cm x W127cm
Sunrise from the Shard

Watercolour

H103cm x W130
After Silence

Watercolour

H99cm x W 129cm
Eye Level

Watercolour

H58cm x W146cm

About Deborah Walker RI RSMA

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Biography

Artist's Statement

Deborah has always regarded drawing as the seminal process from which all art forms grow. Drawing as mark making is an intrinsic part of being human; everybody does it but developing a language of drawing and painting that can express feelings and emotional responses has always been her aim. Deborah's paintings are concerned with landscape, both in broad expanse and in close up detail and express both the dramatic and subtle ways in which light transforms a subject. A recurring theme in my work is the depiction of water, as it provides a consistent challenge. Her approach to watercolour embraces both representational and abstract elements, and she tries to push the character of the paint to extremes.

Method of Working

After site visits, numerous sketches, colour notes and photographs for reference, Deborah works in her studio on heavy weight rag paper in pure watercolour – the bigger the better!

Biographical Details

I currently live in Barton under Needwood and paint from my studio gallery, ‘the gallery @ Ridware Arts’, Hamstall Ridware, in the heart of rural Staffordshire on the banks of the River Blythe.

1985 - First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art, De Montfort University
2002 - Founded ‘Ridware Arts’, studios and workshops for classes, workshops, talks and demonstrations
            Elected Fellow to the Royal Society of Arts
2006 - Elected Member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
2008 - Elected Chair of Staffordshire Open Studios
2008 - Opened ‘the gallery @ Ridware Arts’
2011 - Elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours

2014 - Elected to RI Council , RI Steward for the Artists' General Benevolent Institution 2015 - Founded Friends of the RI

2018 - Elected a member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists

Society Memberships

Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours

Royal Society of Marine Artists

Other Society Memberships

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts 2002
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists 2006

Scholarships, Awards, Prizes

Mall Galleries Bookshop Greetings Card Award, RI, 2016 The Turner Medal, The Anthony J. Lester Art Critic Award, The Escoda Barcelona Prize, RI, 2015 The Charles Pears Award, RSMA, 2015

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Purchase Prize and the Winsor & Newton Prize, 21st Century Watercolour Competition, RWS, Bankside Gallery, 2008
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Purchase Prize, 21st Century Watercolour Competition, RWS, Bankside Gallery, 2005

RBSA Prize Exhibition, 2006 & 2007

People's Prize, Stoke Open, 2004

Yew Tree Studios Award, Derby Open, 2001

Topgraphical Prize, Derby Open, 2002

Staffs Open Prize Winner, 2004

People's Prize Winner, Staffs Open, 1999, 2004 & 2005

Staffordshire Open Studios Patron’s Choice, 2007

Exhibitions

Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 205th Exhibition

Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition 2016

Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 2016

Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition 2015

Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 2015

Other exhibitions

Royal Institute of Water Colours, Mall Galleries, 2006 to Date
Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, 2004 to 2011
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Birmingham, 1998 to 2011
Royal Society Marine Artists, Mall Galleries, 2011 to Date
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, 2010 & 2011 to Date
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 2004 to 2007
Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, 2001 to 2003
The Gallery Upstairs, Torquil, Henley in Arden, 2000 to 2009
Staffordshire Open, 1999 to 2010
Derby Open, 2001 to 2008
Stoke Open: 02 – 07
Birmingham Open: 07
Lichfield International Arts Festival, Lichfield Cathedral: 00
Malvern Festival Theatre: 06

Publications

Contributor, ‘Different Strokes Watercolour’, Quarto Publishing, 2008

Art of England Magazine, 2007