[1] She also attended the Edinburgh College of Art where, in place of drawing, she took Percy Portsmouth's sculpture modelling class.

[1] Walton also studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris for two winters and spent some time in Florence.

[citation needed] Eric, Cecile and the painter Dorothy Johnstone (1892–1980) had formed a close painting and physical liaison.

Walton 's painting faltered, but she did execute murals for the Children's Village in Humbie, Midlothian in the mid 1920s, and for Small's department store on Princes Street, Edinburgh, and she was also the art editor of Edinburgh University's Atlanta's Garland (1926) where she wrote on women's art in Scotland.

[3] Walton is best known for her ironic self-portrait Romance, in which she depicts herself as a latter-day Olympia, critically inspecting her newborn son Edward, while both are watched by his sibling Gavril.