Inside the Studio

Visit with Caroline Walls

Striped, neutral and black paintings of fabric by artist Caroline Walls.

Using a fabric as a stand-in for the human form, Caroline Walls' work explores emotional intimacy, connection, and love in all its guises.

Artist Caroline Walls painting a pattered beige and black work on canvas in her studio.

Beige and black floral painting on canvas by artist Caroline Walls.

Artist Caroline Walls standing in her studio looking at photographs taped to the wall.

My paintings speak to the enfolded, intertwined nature of intimacy and relationships. Striped fabric gives graphic cartographic rhythm to alluring emotional landscapes. The emotional worlds constructed in my paintings are ones of female identity, female intimacy and the dichotomy of the public and private selves. With their various degrees of concealment and revelation, there is an implicit sensuality. There is a sense of bearing witness to something hidden and fundamentally intimate – a feeling, or a moment, that we touch from a distance.
Caroline Walls

Artist Caroline Walls sitting on the floor of her studio flipping through a notebook.

Artist Caroline Walls standing in her studio next to a stack of paintings on canvas.

Large, striped works on canvas of fabric by artist Caroline Walls.

Draped, veil-like fabric is omnipresent in this work not as a tool of concealment, but rather a stand-in for the human form, divorcing the figurative aspects of the work from personal specificity and allowing my subjects to be perceived through a broader concept of intimacy.
Caroline Walls