Caroline Walls' latest series of artworks draws inspiration from the female form.

Caroline Walls creates art with a strong sense of colour and graphic form in her Melbourne studio, inspired by human experiences and her extensive travels. After spending time working abroad in London and New York in design and art direction, she returned home to Australia to explore her creativity as an artist. Recently featured on TV's The Block, Caroline’s beautiful prints are available for the first time on Temple & Webster, so she caught up with Chloe Hamilton to talk about what inspires her work, her career highlights and how she styles her home.

How would you describe your art to someone who's never seen it before?
This particular series explores the body and the reduction of its form as a way of heightening its expressive power. With my foundation in design, the works also have a strong use of colour and graphic form. My paintings are quite different from my graphite drawings, in that I use very minimal colour and quite intricate detail, but I love to explore both ways of working.

Tell us a little about your creative process…
I work fairly intuitively and on a number of things at any given time – I never seem to be able to stick to one particular medium or material! The one constant across the different types of work I create is the theme, I love the human form.

After years of living and working abroad, Caroline now works out of her home studio in Melbourne.

Where do you find inspiration?
In everyday human experiences and the fluidity of the human body. The newest pieces I’m working on also look at sculpture and ceramic works of the 1930s and 40s.

Your career highlight so far?
Last year I held my first solo exhibition at Gallerysmith Project Space in North Melbourne – a combination of illustrations, paintings and soft sculpture. It was a lot of work to pull it all together but an invaluable learning experience. I have another exhibition in the pipeline for 2017.

How would you describe your decorating style?
The home I share with my girlfriend, Emma, and our black cat, Major Tom, is very eclectic and personal. The art, ceramics and trinkets all have some meaning behind them – I rarely display things that are purely decorative. The tones are very natural and muted, and the furniture is mostly Mid-century.

When displaying art in your home, Caroline's top tip is to group pieces that are tonally similar.

Favourite room in your home?
It would have to be my studio space that adjoins the living room and kitchen. There are lots of windows to let in the morning sunshine, and it backs onto our small and very green courtyard.

Your favourite way to display art at home?
I love bringing a collection of works together to create a feature wall. The trick is to choose a selection of artworks that you really love, but also tonally or aesthetically similar pieces so the wall works as one large piece of art.

If you could take a holiday anywhere in the world right now, where would you go?
Emma and I are dreaming up a trip to London and Berlin next year. I lived in London for a number of years, so I like to visit friends and old haunts as often as I can.

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