The Last Mackerel, c.2004

Caroline was born in Edinburgh in 1964, the family then moving to the Orkney Isles in 1968 where her mother taught Latin and her father built boats. After gaining an Honours Degree in History of Art at Aberdeen University (1982 – 6) Caroline moved to Edinburgh and worked as an archaeological fieldworker in North Uist, Iona and Shetland and as a conservation volunteer.

Returning to Orkney, Caroline began painting in 1994. Although she had no formal training in painting beyond school art classes, her paintings soon began to sell. After relocating to the Scottish Borders Caroline had her first solo show at the Mainhill Gallery in Ancrum in 1997. The very same year Caroline also had her first painting, Donald’s Bible accepted into the RSA.

During these formative years Caroline was prolific, working in acrylics on large pieces, there was an out-pouring of imagery: principally elaborate, chintzy, almost glowing still-lifes, the Belted Galloway cattle on the Eildon Hills where she lived and more sombre land and sea scapes, redolent of her childhood in the Orkneys.

The millennium saw Caroline moving to Argyll where she married and had two sons: the eldest Donald was born 5 days before the opening of her solo show: “Under Western Skies” with John Martin of London in Mayfair in 2004.

Now working in oils, Caroline continues to paint & exhibit full-time, with work in Edinburgh (The Open -Eye) , Glasgow (The Billcliffe Gallery) and various west coast galleries.

In endless pursuit of conveying the subtle vibrancy of the Atlantic fringe where she walks and kayaks, occasional forays into figure-painting and always the chintzy still-lifes, her work continues to develop and endure.

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