Charlotte Roseberry’s meticulous paintings are built around a number of recurring motifs: subtly shifting gradients; sun or moon-like circles in block colours; monolithic, hard-edged prisms; spindly, tree-like structures reaching upward. Though abstract and enigmatic, each of her images feels resolved. You might not recognise what you’re seeing, but you’ll agree that everything is in its correct place.
Despite its imaginative quality, Charlotte’s is ultimately an art of observation. She describes it as an “exploration of the internal landscape,” where forms and textures coalesce into a symbolic language to map her inner world. Many of her paintings feature frames or apertures, presenting their subjects as something to be peered into from the outside rather than experienced intensely and up close. Perhaps it’s this sense of curiosity – observing at a distance rather than overthinking from within – that lends her work its distinct sense of peace, serenity and release.
“many of my paintings place their subjects or ‘views’ within a frame, emphasizing a sense of looking in from the outside”
– Charlotte Roseberry