Caroline Walker

Caroline Walker was born in 1982 in Dunfermline, Scotland, where she has returned to live and work. She studied painting at Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London, and even before graduation was recognised as one of the most outstanding artists of her generation, echoing the concerns and aesthetic of some of the great artists of the last two centuries, among them Manet, Vuillard, Bonnard and Hopper, and the Impressionists Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot.

Walker’s paintings, which reveal the diverse social, cultural and economic experiences of women living in contemporary society, have received significant acclaim for their aesthetic beauty and mysterious narratives. They have been exhibited at museums and galleries throughout the world and enthusiastically collected by public institutions, corporate bodies and private clients.

Recent solo exhibitions include Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles; GEM The Hague; Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; GRIMM, Amsterdam and New York; Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham; ProjectB, Milan and Space K, Seoul. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery, London; Sainsbury Centre, Norwich; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and Rudolfinum, Prague. Walker is represented in international collections including the Saatchi Collection, London; The Franks-Suss Collection, London; ING Bank Collection, Netherlands; Akzo Nobel Foundation, Netherlands, and the Kolon Group Collection, Korea.  Her work was included in Phaidon’s Vitamin P3 and a monograph, Picture Window, was co-published by Anomie and GRIMM in 2018.

Caroline Walker Lithographs

In 2014 Enitharmon Editions published Walker’s first portfolio of four signed limited edition lithographs, Initiations. In 2018 her second portfolio of four, Sunset, was published. Her latest series Nocturnes was released in 2023. The lithographs, signed and limited in an edition of 35 were printed with the artist at Paupers Press. Printed on 6-7 colour plates the lithographs are richly textured and painterly in feel.

These limited editions enable collectors to make affordable purchases of the work of a leading contemporary artist. 

Nocturnes

CAROLINE WALKER - Nocturnes 'Twilight', signed lithograph limited to 35, published by Enitharmon Editions (2023), 53cm x 43cm: £3000 (including VAT)

CAROLINE WALKER - Nocturnes 'Twilight', signed lithograph limited to 35, published by Enitharmon Editions (2023), 53cm x 43cm: £3000 (including VAT)

CAROLINE WALKER - Nocturnes 'Early Evening', signed lithograph limited to 35, published by Enitharmon Editions (2023), 53cm x 43cm: £3000 (including VAT)

CAROLINE WALKER - Nocturnes 'Early Evening', signed lithograph limited to 35, published by Enitharmon Editions (2023), 53cm x 43cm: £3000 (including VAT)

CAROLINE WALKER - Nocturnes 'Late Evening' , signed lithograph limited to 35, published by Enitharmon Editions (2023), 53cm x 43cm: £3000 (including VAT)

CAROLINE WALKER - Nocturnes 'Late Evening' , signed lithograph limited to 35, published by Enitharmon Editions (2023), 53cm x 43cm: £3000 (including VAT)

CAROLINE WALKER - Nocturnes 'Midnight' , signed lithograph limited to 35, published by Enitharmon Editions (2023), 53cm x 43cm: £3000 (including VAT)

CAROLINE WALKER - Nocturnes 'Midnight' , signed lithograph limited to 35, published by Enitharmon Editions (2023), 53cm x 43cm: £3000 (including VAT)

“Nocturnes brings together recent family subjects touching on themes of women’s domestic labour, with night scenes which have been a recurring motif in my work for over a decade. Depicting everyday activities, from my daughter watching tv before dinner, to my mum seen washing dishes or taking the bins out late on a midsummer’s night, to the darkened space of a bedroom, lit only by the streetlights outside the window, where my sister in law, Lisa, feeds her baby. The medium of lithography offers particularly rewarding results for building up the atmosphere and rich colour needed to depict these nocturnal scenes because of the complexity of colour that can be achieved through the layering of the different plates. I’m always taken by surprise by some of the colours that are created in the process, which is so different to the way I use oil paint. It’s both exciting and challenging working out how to build up an image in this way, with just 6 or 7 colours.” Caroline Walker

Caroline Walker - Nocturnes 'Twilight'

Caroline Walker - Nocturnes 'Twilight'

Caroline Walker - 'Early Evening'

Caroline Walker - 'Early Evening'

Caroline Walker - Nocturnes 'Late Evening'

Caroline Walker - Nocturnes 'Late Evening'

Caroline Walker - Nocturnes 'Midnight'

Caroline Walker - Nocturnes 'Midnight'

Caroline Walker - Initiations

CAROLINE WALKER - Adornment, signed lithograph limited to an edition of 25, published by Enitharmon Editions (2014), 46 x 43 cm, £1800 (including VAT)

‘I gave my first series of lithographs the title Initiations to reflect that working with the medium of lithography was a new venture for me. In terms of mark-making, lithography is the printmaking process closest to painting, but it still presented a completely different way of building an image. I had to consider how, through overlaying transparent layers of colour, I could use a relatively limited palette to build complex scenes. The prints in the set were diverse in subject matter, reflecting a shift in subject in my painting practice at that time, from staged luxury towards an interest in artificiality and illusion.  Adornment portrays two women engaged in faintly ritualistic activities against trompe l’oeil backdrops that they appear to become part of, blurring the line between the reality and fiction.’ CAROLINE WALKER