Sandsfoot in winter - low tide Painting

Biography: Charles spent most of his working life as an Engineer in the automotive and aerospace industries. Having always an interest in art, it was not until 2000 that he found time to take up painting, since then he has completed a Diploma in Art and Design at UCE Bournville Birmingham (now City of Birmingham University 2004), where he specialised in Fine Art & Printmaking. He is now in his final year of a BA (Hons) Painting, degree with the Open College of Arts. Whilst in Birmingham he regularly exhibited at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, the Water Orton, Lichfield and Sutton Coldfield art societies. Since moving to Weymouth in 2005 his work is focused on Dorset’s Jurassic coastline, painting mainly in oils acrylics and mixed media, attracted to the air of timeless isolation of this area of Dorset, particularly the Fleet and Portland’s rugged coastline of stark grey towering cliffs, abandoned quarries and rusting derrick cranes.