London-based artist Caroline List's Magical Landscapes

Artist’s Biography:

Since graduating from Chelsea school of Art, Caroline List has exhibited in numerous shows in London and overseas and has sold work to a number of financial corporate collectors. List lives in London, UK and has a studio in ISLINGTON / HACKNEY.

Awards & Reviews:

In 2007 List was short listed for the Brian Robertson Painting Award

Solo shows:
2008 until May 25th SILENT WITNESSES at Seven Seven Contemporary in London.
2007 00 NATURE at contemporary Art projects London, www.commentart.com
2007 ROMANCE AT DACS gallery London
2005 Curated nad exhibited in Artificial Glory at the Standpoint Gallery, London.
2004 she curated and exhibited The Horizon of Expectation, at The Empire Gallery in London.

Institutional Collection: Caroline’s work is in a number of collection such as The Contemporary Art Society, Neuberger and Berman collection New York. Fidelity Financial Contemporary collection, Cazenove & J P Morgan Investment Bank, Lehman Brothers collection, Arthur Anderson collection and Hilton hotel headquaters ,Caroline has exhibited and sold at auction, in contemporary auctions at Bonhams and Christies in London

Artist’s Statement:

Caroline List's paintings are predominately landscapes, which hover between fact and fiction. She explores the physicality of painting in relation to memory, artifice and the photographic trace. Her works explore landscape representations, from sublime landscape painting to the picturesque postcard or tourist souvenirs.

List's work is inspired by her research of locations of historical places such as Flatford Mill, stately gardens and Sherwood Forest. Her paintings play with notions of the romantic landscape, referencing high and low genres, often set within perfect landscapes, un-peopled, like Capability Brown's gardens of the 18th century. These landscapes are perfectly composed for our viewpoint, seamlessly disguising the influences of man.