CHARLES ANDRADE

Charles Andrade paints in the colorist style that has evolved from his initial training in painting and art therapy, which he studied in England at Tobias School of Art & Therapy. With an in depth understanding of color as defined by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, and elaborated on by the painter Liane Collot d’Herbois;  his artwork utilizes many washes of translucent color glaze  that express the dynamic movement of light, color and darkness. Charles was also schooled in the art of Lazure, a unique wall treatment that creates soul-nourishing interior environments.

Andrade’s canvas work makes use of the same translucent glazes of color that characterize his Lazure wall work. He became interested in landscape painting several years ago when he took a break from the large, fluid painting format to investigate the art of chalk pastel painting while living in France. In Paris, he discovered the unique pastels made by Henri Roche and used by the great French impressionist painters, Matisse and Bonnard among others. Andrade created a series of pastel paintings that captured the light and urban landscape of the city at night and another series depicting the Cote d’Azur mountain villages.

Charles Andrade currently lives and maintains a studio in the Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado. His artwork is represented by Galerie DeVore and LivAspenArt in Aspen, Colorado and 78th Street Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His paintings can be found in private collections in North America, Europe and New Zealand.

Charles has owned and operated Lazure Custom Wall Designs for over 25 years – a mural and decorative/ faux painting business, specializing in a unique European glazing finish called Lazure.  Charles lectures, teaches fine art classes and offers Lazure workshops worldwide.

Personal Statement

“The fluid quality of the color is very important as it mirrors the transcendent quality of the human soul. Much like a true process of thinking, where one begins with a hazy idea of what one wants to focus on with the mind, gradually the spiraling process of creation intensifies from the light to the darkness of a concrete thought or the material end of a painting…In the pastel medium, I am interested in the form of things, opaque color and how value creates the forms I am trying to define. I see it as a balance to the ethereal large scale wall and canvas work I do otherwise: contraction and expansion, two principles of human life and being.”