Charles, a Connecticut native, grew up in a family of artists including a grandfather whose work now hangs in the National Gallery, and a cousin whose work is in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. Charles began drawing in early childhood. He received four years of formal training in various art media at the Paier School of Art in Hamden, Connecticut, and two additional years of instruction in painting and sculpting at the Lyme Academy of Fine Art in Old Lyme, Connecticut. He has worked professionally as a landscape painter for over twenty years.

His commissioned works have been created at such diverse locations as Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Burlington, Vermont; Saratoga Springs, New York; The Meadowlands in New Jersey; the New York Stock Exchange and NYNEX; the Calvin Klein house in Key West, Florida; and the Grand Floridian Hotel in Orlando, Florida. His paintings have been purchased by IBM, United Technologies, Lenders Bakery, Hallmark, Flagler College, St. Augustine branch of the Bank of America, and by numerous private collectors including the former director of the Jacksonville Art Museum.

Charles has worked as a painting instructor at North Hollow School in Rochester, Vermont (1988-89) and the Johnson College External Degree Program in Johnson, Vermont (1989). He has given painting demonstrations at various art leagues around the country. He is a member, and award winner, of the St. Augustine Art Association and the North Florida Artists Alliance.

Charles has been painting in Florida and Vermont for many years where the contrasting locations provide different and challenging choices for subject matter.

Charles’ artistic aim is to continue to create paintings capturing the spirit and beauty of the variety of landscapes around us.