Charlotte graduated from Coventry University in 2003 with a degree in Fine Art painting, her early work which consisted in an ongoing series of large scale abstract paintings are held in various public and private collections across the country. Over the past ten plus years She has also worked as a curator, creative consultant and artist advisor.
Towards the end of 2019, Charlotte decided to make her own art making her main focus, with black-work illustration being her primary mode of work.
Coming from a creative family, the arts have always played an important role in her life and work and act as a continued source of inspiration - Be it from her Grandfather whom worked as a interior design for the Queen or her distant relative, British illustrator Aubrey Beardsley.
The ideas based around her work are around the notion of a journey, a physical and metaphorical one. Imagined landscapes create the backdrop to snippets of information, like moments from a fragmented diary. They often contain a central character and their feelings on the view before them.
Repeated themes of landscapes and botanical studies run through her work.
Her precision of line and richness of subject matter has put her as one of the rising stars of the illustrative art scene.
Charlotte: "Drawing is my primary mode of art making and an integral part to my artistic practice. For me drawing is the starting point and the final outcome.
Drawing is and always will be an essential language to my work; it allows me to formulate ideas, express emotions and capture detail in a way that solidifies my intentions.
My routine of drawing is to make a single preliminary pencil drawing that is then worked in ink and then the line details added".