CAROLINE WALKER was born in 1982 in Dunfermline, Scotland. Her paintings breathe with light and labor, and with gestures caught between care and exhaustion. Trained at the Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London, she has built a visual language that reveals the hidden architecture of women’s work.

Walker paints moments that are often overlooked: a nurse adjusting a curtain, a hairdresser rinsing a client’s hair, or a woman folding linens in the last light of day. Her canvases hold the quiet gravity of the domestic and the professional, where tenderness and repetition become a kind of devotion. She looks without intrusion, allowing light to do the speaking.

In recent years her focus has turned toward motherhood and the rituals of care. The Mothering series, for instance, gathers paintings made over five years, each one a meditation on the fragile choreography between giving and becoming. In Birth Reflections, created after a residency in a London maternity ward, the clinical and the human coexist in luminous stillness.

Her work evokes the intimacy of Dutch interiors and the solitude of Hopper’s rooms, yet her world belongs entirely to the present. The palette is luminous, the composition deliberate, and the subjects dignified in their ordinariness. Through them Walker reminds us that attention is an act of love.

Now based once again in Scotland, she continues to explore the porous boundaries between the personal and the social, between work and rest, and between seeing and being seen. Her paintings invite us to slow down, to inhabit the rhythm of others, and to find meaning in the light that falls quietly across a windowpane.

More of her work may be appreciated on her website.