His final year project at Guildford School of Art on A.S.Neill’s well known alternative school was published in 1969 by Penguin Books with the title Neill & Summerhill: A Man and his Work. A Pictorial Study. . A part-time lecturer at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London for seven years, Walmsley was also photographer in residence at Digswell Arts Centre in Welwyn where he lived amongst other artists like, Lol Coxhill, jazz musician and Liz Fritsch, potter.