Charlie’s work blends abstract and surreal elements with more traditional and photo realistic portraiture styles, through experiments which test the limits and interactions of media such as watercolour and oil paint, charcoal and powdered graphite.
The imagery created by the artist may be interpreted as an exploration of internal thought processes, emotions, and psyche. These timeless figures capture fleeting emotions or indescribable concepts, writhing and floating under the surface of the paper, drifting in and out of clarity like thoughts and dreams leaking from the Collective Unconscious.
Current work is influenced by Dali’s manifesto on Nuclear Mysticism based on discoveries of particle physics and atomic energy. Dali explored these concepts of dematerialisation in works where the material world breaks down into disconnected particles, exploding outwards into separate elements or forms representing atoms and the spaces between them.
Figures in Charlie’s work disintegrate into drips, spheres, brush strokes, organic growths or digital distortions reflecting this interest in the ephemeral nature of the collection of atoms that make up a human existence.
The imagery created by the artist may be interpreted as an exploration of internal thought processes, emotions, and psyche. These timeless figures capture fleeting emotions or indescribable concepts, writhing and floating under the surface of the paper, drifting in and out of clarity like thoughts and dreams leaking from the Collective Unconscious.
Current work is influenced by Dali’s manifesto on Nuclear Mysticism based on discoveries of particle physics and atomic energy. Dali explored these concepts of dematerialisation in works where the material world breaks down into disconnected particles, exploding outwards into separate elements or forms representing atoms and the spaces between them.
Figures in Charlie’s work disintegrate into drips, spheres, brush strokes, organic growths or digital distortions reflecting this interest in the ephemeral nature of the collection of atoms that make up a human existence.