About

Libby Walker is a landscape painter based in Scotland.

After graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 2009, Libby began a successful career as an illustrator, working with clients including Jo Malone, Ibis Styles, Hilton, RSPB, Chivas Brothers and the University of Glasgow. Over more than fifteen years, her commercial and personal illustration work became widely recognised for it connection to place, specifically Glasgow.

Alongside commissions, Libby developed her own illustrated brand celebrating Scotland’s communities. Her work focused on the character of local places - shops, cafés, pubs and architectural landmark. In 2018 she opened a shop in Glasgow’s Southside, which quickly became a well-loved destination for locals and visitors, and remained open until 2021.

In recent years, Libby’s practice has shifted decisively towards landscape painting. This move grew out of a period of reflection and development following the closure of the shop, and a desire to return more fully to painting as a way of working. She now works primarily en plein air, alongside larger studio paintings developed from on-site studies and photographs. Her work explores light, movement, colour and the emotional experience of being in a landscape - a thread that has run quietly through her practice from the beginning.

Based in a studio in the heart of Glasgow, Libby’s work is shaped by the movement between city and wild landscape. Scotland’s geography allows for constant transition: from dense urban spaces to sea, moorland and open countryside within a short journey. This sense of arrival and departure, of connection and disconnection , plays a central role in the paintings.

All of the landscapes Libby paints are places she has physically spent time in. The work holds lived experience, informed by weather, memory and changing light.

In January 2026, Libby appears as a contestant on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year, marking this current phase of her painting practice.

Alongside her studio work, Libby runs small, welcoming art classes from her Artroom in Glasgow, sharing her approach to drawing and painting with others.

Artist Statement

My practice is rooted in being present in the landscape. Painting outdoors allows me to respond directly to light, movement and atmosphere, while studio work offers space to reflect on memory and experience. I am interested in how places stay with us - how we carry fragments of colour, weather and feeling long after we have left. The paintings are not records of a single moment, but accumulations of time spent looking, returning and noticing.

Libby Walker

Libby also invites you to her Artroom to be part of art classes she runs there. You can see what's on here.