Charlotte Baynes

Currently working on a new series of paintings and drawings in response to Covid 19: 'Essentials/Non-essentials.

For the past 23 years, I have been painting professionally in places with great, natural light: Barcelona, Cádiz, Whitstable and Granada....always learning something new in the process. My work is largely representative and includes several portraits, though more recently, landscapes and interiors too. Sometimes, I take huge risks and abandon my brush in favour of lavish injections of paint. Despite these seemingly random acts, precision is a concern along with a desire to respond honestly to my subject. When I make a portrait, as with all my work, I aim to create something meaningful. Composition is important to me-especially where there is background detail, adding to the narrative. However, for me, the face predominates. I have enjoyed looking at many sitters, exploring their faces and getting a sense of them + seeing how we respond to one another. I have exhibited widely/ internationally, including in Barcelona, Cadiz, New York, Edinburgh, Argentina and London, at The Mall Galleries. You can learn more via:


PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

* 2020 Portrait pre-selected for the BP Portrait Award

*Selected to take...

Goldsmiths School of Art London
Canterbury Christchurch University
University of Kent

FUTURE EXHIBITIONS

2022

May Henley
Oct St Ives

2021

Aug (collective) Binfield Heath Chapel

2019-20
On-line exhibitions
2018
5th-18th Dec
UNITED SOCIETY OF ARTISTS WINTER EXHIBITION
Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable

Wallace Collection London. Self-portrait exhibited re Sky Portrait
Artist of the year 2018 series

2017

Sept
UNITED SOCIETY OF ARTISTS 94TH OPEN EXHIBITION
The Menier Gallery
51 Southwark St
London SE1 1RU

June

UNITED SOCIETY OF ARTISTS
Summer Exhibition
The Pie Factory, Margate


2016

(Collective)

The Wallace Collection, London
(As part of Sky Portrait Artist of the Year)

The Mall Galleries, London (SWA

Bankside Gallery (U.A)

On-going Vecchio Parioli,London


2015
(SOLO)

A new Spanish Journey
Show-off Gallery
Whitstable

On-going (COLLECTIVE) Vecchio Parioli,London


2014

(Collective) Bankside Gallery, London (The United Society of Artists Annual Exhibition)

(Solo) Gallery 2, The Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable

(Collective)The Mall Galleries, London (The Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition)

(Collective) On-going Vecchio Parioli,London


2013

(Collective) FISH SLAB GALLERY Whitstable

(Solo) CLO...