She then refers to these images to create pencil and charcoal drawings, technical compositions and oil sketches. She begins by following her subject, taking photographs of distinctive moments in her daily life. In an interview with Stephen Friedman Gallery, Walker shares her artistic process, specifically for her exhibition Lisa, which chronicles the daily life of her sister-in-law as she becomes a mother. As she draws the viewer into quiet moments and intimate scenes with striking realism, Walker challenges traditional ideas of women as subjects of art. A majority of her paintings reveal women performing unseen jobs, including housework and the routines of their domestic life. “From the anonymous to the highly personal, what links all these subjects is an investigation of an experience which is specifically female.” Through painting, Walker blurs boundaries between lived experience and objectivity, portraying a subject that is known to many.Ĭaroline Walker is a Scottish-born contemporary visual artist based in London, known for paintings of women, revealing the diverse social, cultural and economic experiences of her subjects living in contemporary society. “The subject of my paintings in its broadest sense is women’s experience, whether that is the imagined interior life of a glimpsed shop worker, a closely observed portrayal of my mother working in the family home, or women I’ve had the privilege of spending time within their place of work,” Walker explains.
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