In Caroline Isgar’s etchings, vessels are often a framework for female figures that leap, swim, dive, or sit and contemplate – combining earthy and dreamy imagery. Vessels and pots are a recurring motif - she is drawn to their simplicity and the way in which they can be a form of pictorial storytelling. Caroline Isgar often collaborates with the writer Michèle Roberts, for instance on Fifteen Beads, an artist’s book with handwritten text.