Gosia Walton was born in Legnica, Poland, and now lives and works in Edinburgh. She is a multidisciplinary artist who has been building her practice since completing a Master’s in Contemporary Art Practice at Edinburgh College of Art in 2015.
Her work has been shown across Scotland and Europe, with solo exhibitions in Paris, Poland, and London. Drawing, printmaking, and painting are at the core of her practice—intuitive processes she
uses to make sense of the world and herself.
In 2022, Walton was diagnosed with Long Covid. It changed everything. Her work became more personal, turning to themes of the female body, mental health, and nature. Drawing and printmaking became daily acts of survival—a way to process and keep going.
For the 199th RSA Annual Exhibition, Walton presents seventeen original drawings on Amate bark paper. They were Created as part of the I want to be a tree project supported by Creative Scotland. She observes and learns from trees near her home in Juniper Green and the Pentland hills, imagining what it would feel like to become one. Each drawing is a response to a difficult moment, a feeling, or a thought—abstract, emotional, and unfiltered.
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