London-based artist Caroline Walker takes inspiration from “invisible” women in the UK capital’s service industries – housekeeping staff, tailors, hairdressers, nail technicians – for her large oil paintings (many between 6ft and 10ft wide) inspired by 19th-century French painters such as Manet.
“There’s all this stuff happening around us,” she says. “If we open our eyes, we can see a lot – not just about those people’s lives, but about the way we all live.”
