Raised in the city of San Francisco, Charlotte Reider-Smith’s relationship with paint began at an early age, when she was handed a brush and allowed to go wild on the bathroom walls! In 2015 Charlotte relocated to Vermont to study art at Middlebury College where she discovered the magic of oil paint.

 

Charlotte is currently pursuing her MFA through Vermont College of Fine Arts and is thrilled to be part of a community to support the successes and challenges of creating and sustaining the practice of art-making. Charlotte works from her home studio, rooted in the land in Goshen, Vermont.

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Charlotte’s paintings, both abstract and representational, on canvas and wood, range in size from one foot square to as large as eight by ten feet. Her intention is to surrender her little ego in the process of painting, have fun, and trust her intuition. She loves being surprised by the final result!

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By building her paintings through a dynamic process of molding, scraping, dripping, and layering paint, Charlotte is constantly exploring, seeking image-making and truth-finding both internally and expressed through painting. Sometimes she sews or cuts in the canvas, sometimes priming it first, sometimes painting on the raw material.

 

Charlotte hopes her work will touch the places deep inside of us which connect us to our Real Selves, a practice that is the foundation of her life work.​