A Feast of Colour on show at Sou Sou West, Symondsbury from 3-18 May, with open afternoon with refreshments on 3rd May 2.30-4.30 and an opportunity to meet the artist!

VENUES: Sou Sou West Gallery, Symondsbury 3-18th May 2025
                 The Malthouse Gallery, Lyme Regis   19-15 September 2025 

Full colour, hard back CATALOGUE showing 1000+ images will be available soon!

2024 New work on show at

Ocean seed oil on canvas

Sou Sou West 'Squares'

Sea blossom oil on canvas

Sea cat oil on canvas

​2023 work in progress

Playful fish oil on canvas

Playful fish 2 oil on canvas

Enjoying the view
​oil on canvas

Fifty fishes oil on canvas

As three birds flew oil on canvas

Flying high oil on  canvas

​2022 brings a splitting of pathways, whilst I am still enjoying painting objects in space, reflecting on the power of a manufactured item that has become a familiar companion through life, my work has branched in other directions.
Drawings and paintings exploring remembered spaces has taken me into a liminal space, neither here nor there, but hovering between what was and what is. These images are beginning to illustrate a life lived and may form part of an autobiographical book.
Alongside these thought provoking ideas, I am also creating Matisse inspired cut out collages, these images balance the intensity of reflection with the spontaneous nature of now.
I have been revisiting other works, responding to their incompleteness and adding a freshness to their stories.
With a full program of exhibitions planned for the next two years, I have plenty of inspiration and motivation to keep creating!
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In the ladies bar 1960 
A memory drawing exploring the liminal space between recollection, execution and observation of a remembered space.
Pencil on paper 44 X 31cm 
One of seven images within the liminal chapter of a four title ebook presented by The Salon Collective 2022

Infant bedroom 1950's Pencil on paper

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​2020/21 have been​ productive years, and with enforced isolation I have produced a new body of work ready to show during the spring/summer.
These new paintings continue several themes; Interiors, both actual and from memory; Dorset Impressions - very small paintings of sea, sky and countryside in and around Dorset and a series of small paintings exploring the creative value of my many objects, these set within landscapes and or abstract spaces.

Dorset Impression 43
oil on canvas 13x18cm

Dorset Impression 58
oil on canvas, 13x18cm
SOLD

Bridort Open Studios 2019
This year I am showing in a town centre location - venue 42
I am looking forward to seeing lots of visitors and sharing the joy of colour!
Also showing at The LSI in Bridport and at The Gallery, Symondsbury

Colours of Dorset 2019
Another successful show with Lynne Grace, many visitors and sales encouraging us to book again for next year!

The winter of 2018/19 is giving me a time to reflect on my practice and develop my interest in interiors.
I am creating a range of large and small paintings using my home and studio as inspiration, these are in progress.

Alongside these paintings I am working from my early memories of interiors, those places where I spent my childhood and glimpsed into the world my parents were making for themselves.
Beginning with small sketch book pieces and then working these up into large A1 drawings I am exploring an alternative way to express myself.
All new work will be shown at Eype Centre for the Arts in June/July 2019.














The winter of 2017/18 was a productive time for me. I have been attempting to paint more intuitively, allowing the process to move at its own pace, exploring the potential of colour with expressive mark making, while continuing to be inspired by the Dorset coastal landscapes and interiors.
Subjects have included landscape views from my studio, sea side images and cats, with sizes ranging from 16x11cm to 102x102cm.
I have produced 30 + new paintings to be exhibited with other recent work, over the summer of 2018 across 5 venues.
See Home page and About for more details.

Bridport Open Studios
9-17 September 2017
10-5
Come and see more vibrant paintings developing recent work, small and large oil on canvas or board, prices from £150 - £2500
And cards from £1.50

Greetings cards of many of these images can be purchased direct at www.lovefromtheartist.com

https://www.lovefromtheartist.com/Artists/bridport/caroline-liddington

Dorset Art Weeks 2016
28th May - 12th June

Before the meal 1963 Memory painting oil on canvas 77X77cm

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2021

'Sea time' Oil canvas, 40X40cm  SOLD
Available for auction at The Ropemakers, Bridport on 7th April, for the benefit of the Ukrainian people.

OBJECT SERIES

Silver Coffee pot, oil on canvas 30x30cm

Red Sea, oil on canvas, 15x15cm SOLD

Dorset Impressions 1-17

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Red sofa Oil on canvas 76 x 102 cm

Late afternoon Oil on canvas
102 x 76 cm  SOLD

Portland dream Oil on canvas 102 x 76 cm

Breaking through Oil on canvas

Just checking Oil on board

Beach hut Oil on canvas

Coastal stripes Oil on board

Inside outside oil on board SOLD

Matisse inspired cutout, Xmas 2021 - 1of 6






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Mexican pot and butter dish, 21x25cm SOLD

Papermache pair, oil on canvas SOLD
21x25

Yellow jug oil on board, 13x18cm SOLD

Orange jug, oil on board, 13x18cm

Dorset Impression 49, oil on board, 13x18cm
SOLD

Dawn Oil on canvas
102 x 76 cm

Memory interior 1 SOLD
Memory interor 2

Passing by Oil on canvas

Midsummer champagne and fireworks
Oil on Wood
SOLD

Winter fire Oil on canvas

Coastal stripes with sun Oil on paper

Open Studios 2016 28th May - 12th June
Visit dorsetartweeks.co.uk for further details
Come and visit! Open 10am - 5.30pm Refreshments available in sunny garden location. Paintings, prints and cards for sale from £1.50 - £1500

Hello Dorset!

Free to be...
Come to Dorset Art Weeks to see this new series of paintings celebrating my arrival in Dorset. I am surrounded by beautiful countryside and a stunning coastline full of colour and mystery!

Greetings cards of this and other paintings in the series will be available from www.lovefromtheartist.com following open studios.
This painting is the second in the series
oil on canvas 91cm x 91cm

2016 promises to be a year of transition...After many years of working directly from observation, I will be focusing my attention on the study of planes and surfaces and the spaces in between.
The theme of interior and exterior landscapes with reduced detail and enhanced use of complimentary colours to direct the eye into an uncertain scene, one of familiarity and oddness, inviting the viewer to wonder at the narrative and /or create their own.

*Greetings cards available of these paintings
Visit: www.lovefromtheartist.com 

*The Ancient Window
This is a painting of a tiny characterful window in my old farmhouse kitchen.
Oil on canvas 2015

SOLD

Glendurgan Gardens 2015 Oil on board 125cm X 92cm

Postcard from Charles Town Nov 2014 Gouache on board A5

Old barn through arched window
oil on board
2015
SOLD

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The old spiral staircase Oil on board 57cm X 38cm

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SOLD

Self portrait 2015 (as part of Taking Space group portraits)

Sold

View across St. Hilary October 2014    SOLD

Helston Folk museum 6th - 19th September 2014

'View from Tolcarne'
plus 3 other paintings
showing at Helston
Museum

Falmouth Poly members exhibition 4th - 16th August 2014

I am pleased to say that I have recently been
welcomed into Taking Space, a group of
Cornish women artists who exhibit regularly
in various venues across cornwall.
takingspace.co.uk

Coming up: The Helston Folk Museum
6th - 19th September 2014

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Observe and record...

A place to sit

SOLD

A place to sit continues a narrative developed in recent years, accentuating the necessity to stop and reflect, the seat represents the moment we are able to dispel the anxieties of living and truly appreciate the joy of life.

Oasis of calm

Open studios 2014

Welcome to Skylark Studio...

Skylark studio welcomed many visitors and together we had a very successful Open Studio - thanks to everyone  who came and enjoyed!

2014 marks the beginning of a new approach to my image making, concentrating on observation from nature and domestic environments.
I will be focusing on depth, and spatial relationship between objects and context, limiting my palette to enhance a feeling of time and place.

2013 was a year of transition, illustrated with three significant paintings:

Departing

Time to fly

Becoming

SOLD

Through the eyes of Oscar...

An exploration of Cornwall and beyond through the windows of Oscar, the orange camper van.  Summer 2012

Orange Dream

A series of paintings inspired by vibrant colour, panoramic views,
lanes and windows, boats and beaches and all that makes for a
colourful and joyful life!

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Stithians resevoir through Oscar

From Pendennis Point

SOLD

Seen through the windows of Oscar

*Sails on the lake

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Tea time

The bull and the mermaid SOLD

Submission for the Pydar Gallery 'Anonymous' exhibition March 2012

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SOLD

Moments of Exuberance

Moments of Exhuberance is a new picture book for any audience.
A sequential narrative that follows a life, celebrating moments of exuberant living and dieing.
A feast in the visual language of colour and the poetry of line and form.

This 40 page hard back book contains 28 full colour images with poetic text.
Available for sale from mid September 2011

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The Wrought Iron Railings

The Wrought Iron Railings tells a poignant story about a short journey.
Told from a babies point of view and set in the 1950's.

This book contains 9 full colour images with poetic text.
Available for sale from mid September 2011

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