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 2'x2' to 8'x10'. Her intention is to control the process as little as possible and 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 outwardly through painting. Charlotte hopes her work will touch the places deep inside of us which connect us to our most true selves, something she endeavors to practice each day.​