Victoria Charters

Victoria's 54"X58" painting "I Dream of Mountains and Oceans" accepted into PURE ABSTRACTION prestigious online art gallery from Art Fluent.

From the acceptance email: "We are thrilled to inform you that your artwork has been selected for our online exhibit PURE ABSTRACTION. Your submission stood out from 692 entries from twelve countries worldwide, and we are honored to have the opportunity to showcase your work."

"I like to get lost in the work. I continue to return to my art as a place of exploration and respite."

Victoria Charters is an interdisciplinary artist based in Santa Barbara, California, whose contemporary abstract paintings explore mood, movement and the emotional resonance of landscape. Working primarily in acrylic and mixed media, Charters approaches the canvas intuitively, completing works in a single concentrated session or working over time in layers. Her process is physical and responsive, guided by gesture, rhythm, color, texture, and the unpredictable interactions between materials.

Her paintings occupy a liminal space between abstraction and landscape, evoking aerial perspectives, geological formations, water systems, architecture, and the shifting traces of human presence. Unconventional materials—inc...

-Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne
-Associate of Arts, American Academy of Dramatic Arts

2026
-September 2026, AAC member show, Voice Gallery
-Illuminations Gallery, Santa Barbara, featured guest artist June/July 2026 with "Sapphire Stellium"
-Illuminations Gallery, Santa Barbara, featured guest artist May/June 2026 with "Friday Morning" (collab painting)
-May 2026 The People's Artist Competition
-April 2026, "Our Living Earth" -Voice Gallery, Santa Barbara
-March 2026, "Sisters" -Voice Gallery, Santa Barbara

2025
-Nov 2025, "Ready to Hang" -CAW, Santa Barbara