92. Caroline Gorick - Echo

2026
Oil on board
14 x 17 x 2 cm

Caroline Gorick is a painter whose oil paintings explore light, stillness and the fragile presence of everyday objects. Her work frequently centres on intimate, luminous depictions of ordinary light sources — lamps, bulbs and domestic fixtures — rendered through loose, fluid brushwork that allows forms to hover on the edge of recognition. Suspended between presence and absence, clarity and uncertainty, the paintings transform familiar objects into contemplative, almost reverential images.

For Gorick, these subjects are not simply functional fixtures but still points within interiors that are otherwise constantly shifting. Light emerges not through direct depiction but through subtraction and exposure: she often leaves the lightest areas untouched or rubs away pigment to reveal the bright ground beneath. This pared-back process creates paintings that feel suspended in time, occupying a space where quiet interior moments become charged with emotional and psychological tension. Her work makes room for what feels unresolved, fragile, or only partially visible.

Gorick studied for a Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Academy Schools between 2005 and 2008, following a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and Visual Culture from the University of the West of England (2001–2004).

Recent exhibitions include After Hours at Bridewell Studios and Gallery (2025); the John Moores Painting Prize, Liverpool; RWA Biennial Open 2025: Paper Works at the Royal West of England Academy; Winter Haiku at The Underground Stream Gallery; Paper Cuts 3 at 50_MV; Song to the Siren at 36 Lime Street Gallery; and Drawing (Paper) Show at Bridewell Studios and Gallery. Earlier exhibitions include No Flower Ever Opened at the Royal Academy of Arts Café Gallery (2009), Nocturnes at Francis Kyle Gallery (2007), and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

Her awards include the Steiner Painting Award, the Chenevière Travel Award, the Richard Ford Travel Award, the Dover Arts Club Excellence in Drawing Award and the Edna Wise Figuration Prize. Between 2007 and 2010 she was supported by The Lady Sharon Walker Trust. Her work is held in the collection of Mizuho Bank.