Painting
Course Tutor
Charlotte trained at St Martin's School of Art and has been a professional painter all her life. She regularly exhibits at the Royal Academy Summer Show and has work in both public and private collections around the world.
She has taught in art schools and on luxury cruise ships and is the niece of the much loved children's book illustrator, Edward Ardizzone.
She is a member of the New English Art Club and the Royal West of England Academy.
Charlotte is continually inspired by this beautiful corner of France, and having been a resident here during the summer months for almost 20 years, she now lives here on a permanent basis.
Louise has exhibited her work throughout Britain, in America, Japan and Germany. Baldwin's recent pieces now incorporate found imagery colour and domestic packaging alongside fabric and simple stitch to produce rich small scale textiles that explore some of the complexities of contemporary life..
In 1859 he studied in Paris at the Atelier Suisse and formed a friendship with Pissarro. After two years' military service in Algiers, he returned to Le Havre and met Jongkind, to whom he said he owed `the definitive education of my eye'.
He then, in 1862, entered the studio of Gleyre in Paris and there met Renoir, Sisley, and Bazille, with whom he was to form the nucleus of the Impressionist group.
Monet's devotion to painting out of doors is illustrated by the famous story concerning one of his most ambitious early works, Women in the Garden (Musée d'Orsay, Paris; 1866-67). The picture is about 2.5 meters high and to enable him to paint all of it outside he had a trench dug in the garden so that the canvas could be raised or lowered by pulleys to the height he required.
Courbet visited him when he was working on it and said Monet would not paint even the leaves in the background unless the lighting conditions were exactly right.
This text is an excerpt from The WebMuseum, Paris