Caroline Walker
Paints women at work — cleaners, nail technicians, nurses, her own mother — seen through glass.
Caroline Walker was born in Dunfermline in 1982, studied at Glasgow and the Royal College of Art, and paints women engaged in labour that is usually invisible: hotel housekeepers, laundry workers, nail technicians, midwives, women in refuges, and her own mother in the domestic routine of a family home. The compositions are worked from her own photographs and are frequently framed through windows and doorways, so the viewer is placed outside, looking in. The scale runs from small studies to very large canvases, and the light is treated with a realist's seriousness.
A British market that has risen sharply since the late 2010s, with institutional acquisitions and a consistent gallery record behind it. Large oils on canvas or linen lead, and subject matters — the working-women series are the most sought. Smaller oils on board and paper are numerous and are the accessible part of the output, since she paints preparatory studies in quantity and they are exhibited and sold as works in their own right. Print editions are few. Signature and date are normally on the reverse.
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