Caroline Pool

Caroline grew up in Bangkok, Thailand before moving to England where she gained her Foundation Diploma in Art & Design at Central St Martin’s, London in 2004 and her BA (HONS) Illustration degree at Brighton University in 2007.

After graduating and working full time in set design for feature films such as Ridley Scott’s, ‘Robin Hood’ and Alfonso Cuaron’s, ‘Gravity,’ Caroline followed her instincts and returned to painting. Predominantly a portrait Artist, she enjoys combining her more analytical approach to the human form with a contemporary illustrative quality to the silhouette and composition. Since Covid, she has been applying this same approach to other subject matter including the local environments around her.

Caroline is a member of the CBPP and has had work exhibited in the Royal Academy, Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition and is about to appear in a new documentary series on BBC1 about portrait painting called ‘Extraordinary portraits with Tinie.’ She now lives and works in South Shropshire.