This painting displays Walker's fascination with light as well as the documentation of her mother at work which raises subtle questions about women’s roles. The theme also relates to lockdown when Walker returned imaginatively to the security of her childhood home in Fife. The cedar tree crops up in other paintings in the series, connecting this painting to the others, bringing together concerns with the inside as well as the outside.

Caroline Walker, born 1982

Since graduating from the Glasgow School of Art in 2004 and Royal College of Art in 2009, Walker's work has been shown internationally and is in various public and private collections, including the National Museum Wales, the UK Government Art Collection, the Rosenblum Collection, Paris, and Shetland Islands Council, Lerwick. Her first solo show in her home of Scotland was held at the Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, in 2020.