Personal  Profile 

Caroline lives in the UK and has a studio in London.

Since graduating with an MA in Painting from Chelsea School of Art  Caroline has exhibited in a number of group and solo shows in London, New York, Toronto, Paris, Miami, and China. I have also curated several successful exhibitions in the contemporary London art scene and recently  curated the 3 person exhibition   ‘Shape Chroma’  at Tension Fine Art, London. 

Shape Chroma: Katrina Blannin, Caroline List, Laurence Noga At Tension Fine Art By Sue Hubbard

Over the years her work has been collected by a number of private collectors as well as corporate collections, including The Contemporary Arts Society, Neuberger & Berman New York, Fidelity Financial, London, Lehman Brothers, and JP Morgan Cazenove. Currently her  light box works are also exhibited in the Groucho Club in Soho, London, which is part of their contemporary collection

Artist Statement  

Caroline List’s recent paintings and sculptural works are an inquiry into colour, light, form and illusory space, exploring the opticality of simultaneous colour contrast and its emotive visual impact.

“Working on linen, board, paper and aluminium Caroline List creates luminous paintings full of sensuous hues that explore the spatial qualities of colour in relationship to form and ground, defined by their differing absorbances. Drawing on early 20^th century abstraction and virtual screen photography her work implicitly refers to landscapes, organic shapes and atmospheric light. Using high key pigments and fluorescents full of transparency and opacity her works, despite their sophisticated geometry, create links to the saturated colour fields of Rothko and the spiritual, other worldly light of Caspar David Friedrich.”  

Review ‘Shape Chroma’  Artlyst – Sue Hubbard (2021)

Recent work is categorised into three series, ‘Chroma Shape’, ‘Chroma Sphere’ and ‘Light Shift ’, which reference both Modernist geometric abstraction and the spatial language of landscape. The perception of colour and space is explored through atmospheric light shifts, seen in contrast to hard edged shapes, this push and pull of the picture plane suggests distant horizons or colourscapes, an exploration of depth of field, form, and ground. This play with the optically of the picture plane and the tricks of painting make reference to the infinite, the sublime. Framing devices such as the  Renaissance tondo, tromp l’oeil and Modernist  compositional conventions have informed this series. The colour conversation has several references; signatures observed within nature; atmospheric light; colour theory and formal abstraction, particularly influenced by The colour field painters, Suprematism and geometric construction.

Compositional ideas are generated from collages and paintings on paper, which are later developed into large linen canvases or paintings on board or aluminium. The surface absorbency of colour and light in these works transports the viewer into a visual experience of transient colour, which is not only anchored in Modernist abstraction, but plays with organic totemic forms which float above and beyond the pictorial horizons line. Recent developments into the inquiry of colour and form have generated painted sculptural works, in the ‘Colour Suspension’ series, which explores the relationship between the painted two-dimensional space, flat surfaces and three-dimensional structures, where painted 2D space blends and shapes 3D form.