In Our Hands

Caroline Walls’ practice centers on the emotional and symbolic richness of the female experience, exploring its intimacy, strength, and quiet complexity. Working primarily in oil on linen, she employs a restrained palette and soft, layered brushwork to create compositions that feel at once vulnerable and grounded. In her paintings, the boundaries between figure and fabric dissolve, blurring into forms that suggest connection, memory, and transformation. Her work draws attention to the spaces between bodies—both physical and emotional—highlighting the liminal moments where presence and absence coexist.

Recurring throughout Walls’ work is the motif of drapery, appearing in scenes where figures gently embrace and in more abstract compositions where folds of fabric speak in the body’s place. This material becomes more than a backdrop; it is animated with emotional weight, evoking the presence, movement, and internal world of the figure. By shifting between the literal and the symbolic, the seen and the unseen, Walls’ paintings act as veils—revealing and concealing in equal measure—mirroring the layered experience of womanhood and human intimacy.