Charlotte’s work explores the connection we have to the land, to our identity and a sense of ‘home’. We identify ourselves first by our names and then where we are from. Charlotte is from London. She now lives 4,000 miles away in Toronto. Though she now calls both home it took building a familiarity to her new landscape through daily walks, a practice she maintains, for her to feel she belonged. It is from these walks that ideas for paintings come.
Charlotte makes paintings on canvas in oils and more intimately, on paper with pencil, pen and gouache. All works are celebrations of colour- colour acting as an instigator of memory and emotion in place of sound and smell. Though most easily described as landscape paintings, figures often arrive during the process of making the work, like actors walking out on stage. And birds, too, their migrations linking far flung corners of the world and marking the change of seasons.