Caroline Cornelius ARWS

Caroline’s work explores a certain fragility and fleetingness inherent in life and in particular, a woman’s life. Using intimate scenes from her personal experience as my main source of inspiration, her work is an exploration of the female form and the duality of ageing and maturing: the mutability of beauty and the confidence that comes with self-acceptance.

 

"Motherhood has brought a perspective on the particular angst experienced by teenage girls - raising questions about body image and being comfortable in your own skin, often seen through the lens of my own teenage daughters - pictured on seemingly idyllic holidays - lying by a sunlit pool, skiing or hiking in woodlands."

 

Caroline draws on her past experience as a textile designer to search for incidental patterns using a limited colour palette to simplify and stylise her work. Inspired by the sparsity, patterning and flattening of the picture plane found in Japanese woodcuts.

Caroline is currently on postgraduate course The Drawing Year at The Royal Drawing School.

 

Education | Art Foundation, Chelsea School of Art; BA Fashion Design with Printed Textiles, Brighton University.

Awards | Winner of the Royal Watercolour Society Social Media Award Solo | Winner of the Royal Watercolour Society Daler Rowney Prize.

Solo Exhibitions | Moment Exhibition, Alison Milne Gallery (Canada), 2021

Group Exhibitions | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (London), 2021; Works on Paper, Blue Shop Cottage (London), 2022, A Room of Her Own, Irving Contemporary (Oxford), 2022, False Starts, Old School Gallery (Northumberland), 2022, Royal Watercolour Society Open 2022, A Chorus of Bodies, Lilya Gallery (London), 2021; Figurative Now! Summer 2021 Federation of British Artists, Mall

Galleries (London), 2021; Everything is Water if you look long enough, Coles Gallery (Leeds), 2021; Christmas Group Show 2020, Prince and Pilgrim Gallery (London), 2020; Art on a Postcard, Annual Auction, 2020; Royal Watercolour Society’s Contemporary Competition, Bankside Gallery (London), 2020; Wells Contemporary Art Show, Wells Cathedral (London), 2019; Royal Watercolour Society’s Contemporary Competition, Bankside Gallery (London), 2019; Hatch Gallery Fresh Show, Christchurch (Dorset), 2019; Royal Watercolour Society’s Contemporary Competition, Bankside Gallery (London), 2018; Royal Watercolour Society’s Contemporary Competition, Bankside Gallery (London), 2017.