Caleb Winfield

Caleb Winfield is a self-taught painter living in Chattanooga, Tennessee, who learned his craft through community workshops and online watercolor courses. Before he painted, he worked as a bike courier, a job that teaches you to notice a lot in very little time: the shift of light across a street, the shape of a shadow, the one detail that matters before you move on. In a corner of his studio sits a small Fresnel lens from a channel buoy, found at an estate sale on Signal Mountain. It serves no purpose except that, around four in the afternoon, it scatters little rainbows across the wall, and Caleb stops to watch them. With the Gulf a long day’s drive away, he takes whatever sea he can get.

Caleb works in watercolor and gouache on handmade paper, keeping his compositions spare and quiet. His minimalist pieces lean on soft washes, open space, and a few deliberate marks, so that light and water feel present without being spelled out. The calm, airy palette suits bedrooms, reading corners, bathrooms, and entryways, anywhere a wall could use a little breathing room. Below are Winfield’s canvases in our shop, ready to hang.