Victoria Charters

Victoria's 54"X58" painting "I Dream of Mountains and Oceans" selected from 692 entries across 12 countries for PURE ABSTRACTION online juried exhibition by Art Fluent.

"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—including coffee grounds, reflective glass beads and other textural elements—are incorporated into the surfaces, creating works that invite close visual engagement.

Charters’ practice is informed by her background in acting, film, writing and architectura...

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

2026
-Nov 2026, "Ready to Hang", The Community Arts Workshop
-Nov 2026, AAC member show, Faulkner Gallery
-PURE ABSTRACTION, Art Fluent, online juried exhibition, 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", The Community Arts Workshop, Santa Barbara