Charlie Jones

Artist Statement

My work as an abstract artist is a response and celebration of the layered, textured experience of global travel-particularly the profound influence of my time spent in Asia.

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My process is physical and meditative. I build each painting through multiple layers-applying, removing, scratching, and reapplying pigments, inks, and mixed media. Much like the surfaces I encountered in Asia-worn stone steps, weathered doors, faded signage-my work evolves through time (sometimes frustration) and repetition. There's often no clear endpoint when I begin. I work until the surface starts to speak back-until a kind of quiet coherence begins to emerge.

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I rarely aim to represent a specific place. Instead, I try to capture the feeling of movement, energy, color and cultural texture of a country and its people-the richness that lingers long after the journey.

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One of the pleasures I find in abstraction is its openness. It allows me, and hopefully the viewer, to return to a piece again, discovering new details and resonances depending on the light, the time of day, or the state of mind. That shifting experience is something I deeply value and hope others find in my work.