Caroline Atkins

Caroline worked as a writer and editor before painting started to take over about 15 years ago. Initially taught by the artist Tony Rothon (first at the Heatherley School of Fine Art and then independently for several years), she works mostly in oil, occasionally in watercolour. Her semi-abstract, figurative paintings focus mainly on still-life and interiors, with occasional figures and small landscapes. She often paints into previous images, so that she has something to ‘edit’ in the first place, and so that traces of the original work add their own ambiguities. In recent years she has exhibited at the Royal Academy (Summer Exhibition 2024, 2020 and 2015), at the Mall Galleries (NEAC 2018, 2019 and 2022, ROI 2021) and with various commercial galleries including Piers Feetham in Fulham and Gallery 286 in Earl’s Court. She has also shown annually with the Chelsea Art Society since 2014 and was elected a member in 2016. She makes her own frames and continues to write - in particular interviewing artists and makers for Country Living and Modern Rustic magazines.