Caroline is an oil painter based in Oxfordshire, UK.

“I live in the countryside between the rolling chalk hills of the North Wessex Downs and the wide expanse of The Thames Valley.

There is so much in these surroundings that tempts me to capture in paint; be it a landscape, a garden scene or something from nature I can bring back to the studio and arrange as a still life.

I paint from life as it enables me to interpret true colours and work quickly with energetic brush strokes. I try to distil onto the canvas a puzzle of shapes, tones and colours in the wonderful medium of oil.

Nothing ever stays the same, and much of what motivates me is the permanence of the outcome. I’m happy when I have captured a beautiful fleeting moment to be enjoyed for a lifetime.”