Life has been Charlies University, she has travelled extensively and witnessed many of its variants – disparate cultures, excess, poverty, industrial progress and eco decline. Inspired by these conflicting elements she has experimented with many techniques and ideas as she has evolved, giving way to her unique style. Her work has been widely admired and along with three successful solo shows and several collective shows in Brighton, she was a finalist in Best Sussex Artist 2001.

After a much awaited return to painting since an enforced break, Charlies work has taken on a new vitality, where all the fragments of life that make up one story are compounded in a fusion of structured reality, spontaneity, energy and sole.

There is a dreamlike quality to Charlie’s work and she combines a degree of abstraction with compelling portraiture to engage and almost to haunt the viewer.

In recent times Charlie has been developing her highly representational drawings of wildlife.  She has for many years been in demand in relation to commissioned portraiture of family members and pets.  It is her ability to capture the character of her subject that gives her work a quality lifting it out of the ordinary.  She recently completed a portrait of the magnificent Zimbabwean Lion, Cecil, in association with the Victoria Falls Anti Poaching Unit.

Charlie works and lives in East Sussex.