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The unfinished edges of painter Charles Williams
By Vikki Matsis, Special to The Post and Courier
Thursday, August 26, 2010
A beautiful accident can change your life. In his painting studio, Charles Williams spilled water on one of his canvases. The paint started to drip down the canvas, and after an attempt to save the piece, he put it aside and considered it lost. A friend saw the painting, loved it and bought it. Now, Williams creates large-scale oil paintings with the edges unfinished.
His work is a creative blend of modern and traditional art. Having been trained in the classical and Renaissance style, he uses a traditional color palette and combines photorealism with abstraction in the same painting. Photographs inspire the landscape pieces that Williams creates, but most often the scenes that he paints are imaginary places he sees in his mind.
Williams said that when he paints, he no longer thinks. The art of creating takes him to a place where he is free to express himself, and the background noise of the world dissipates.
"My creative processes are those moments that I experience in life whenever and wherever I am. It begins with those moments, which are then added by music and a quick thumbnail on anything I can find to draw or write on," he said.
Williams recently moved to Charleston but is not new to the art scene here. Having participated in two group shows at Robert Lange Studios, he then had a show at RLS in July with Joshua Flint. Their work was featured in the July issue of American Art Collector and Williams sold every piece of artwork in the show. Williams works in the studio 6-12 hours a day, 6 days a week.
about Charles
Full Name: Charles E. Williams
Website: www.cewpaintings.com, www.cewpaintings.blogspot.com, www.robertlangestudios.comContact Info: edwill84@yahoo.com
Birth place and date: Georgetown, January 1984.
Residence: James Island.
Family: Father, Charles; mother, Earnestine; brothers, Keith and Michael.
Education: Bachelor of Arts in advertising and graphic design, minor in fine arts, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2006.
Career: Full-time artist.
What book are you reading now?: Any art book I get my hands on.
Influences: Richard Schmid, Jacob Collins, David Kassan, Frederick Church, Chloe Early, Jeremy Lipking.
Price Range: $500-$10,000.
Where is your artwork featured locally?: Robert Lange Studios, 2 Queen St.
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