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Ellie Walker’s practice explores the dynamic interplay between control and release, evolving through cycles of layering, erasure and reconfiguration.
Ellie Walker is a London-based painter whose practice unfolds through an intuitive and materially driven approach to image-making. A recent graduate of the MA Fine Art programme at City & Guilds of London Art School, Walker’s work is grounded in drawing as both a starting point and a continual presence within the surface of the painting.
Her paintings emerge through a process of sustained negotiation with material. Working across oil, oil stick, charcoal, embroidery and pencil, Walker builds and disrupts her compositions through cycles of layering, erasure and reconfiguration. Surfaces are scraped back, overworked, and reassembled, allowing earlier marks to remain partially visible. This approach produces a visual tension between construction and collapse.
Colour operates as both structure and sensation within the work. Applied instinctively yet with increasing control, it shifts between areas of density and openness, guiding the rhythm of the composition while resisting fixed meaning. Walker often embraces dissonant or unexpected palettes, using colour to disrupt form and to open new spatial and emotional possibilities within the painting.
At the core of Walker’s practice is an engagement with uncertainty. Her paintings are not pre-determined but evolve through risk, chance and physical intervention, allowing the medium to assert its own agency. Figures and forms appear and dissolve, giving rise to compositions that feel at once immediate and unresolved. In this way, each work becomes a record of its own making, holding traces of gesture, revision and instinct.
Walker’s paintings function as psychological terrains, shaped by memory, sensation and internal states. Balancing control with spontaneity, her work invites a sustained looking, where meaning remains open and continually shifting.
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The doubt was screaming at me, so I gave it the middle finger, 2026£ 5,400.00 -
All pent up, 2026£ 4,700.00
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Glitchy, 2026£ 4,700.00
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Book hoarder, 2026Sold
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I think my inner romantic died at some point, 2026£ 4,050.00
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I don’t know how to articulate this, 2026Sold
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The sea, the sea, the sea!, 2026Sold
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Stubborn, 2026Reserved
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Slow processor, 2026£ 2,000.00
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