Premio Combat Prize

Descrizione Opera:
If the palm trees of her youth were synonymous with liberty, adventure and glamorous exoticism, her sentiment today is altogether more profound. Her drawings express all the graphic quality of these trees from the singularity of their trunks, (which, unlike true trees, do not increase in girth with age), to the spectacular burst of fronds at their growing tip. Many show the trees in movement: the wind catching their fan-shaped tops and reconfiguring them in a dramatic mesh of hatchings and cross-hatchings. Whether depicting single subjects, groups, or the multiplicity of the Palmeraie’s landscape, all the drawings are expressed with the same clean pencil strokes and attention to detail. It is a skill which Charlotte has worked hard to develop to the point where the work flows in what Scottish artist, George Donald, describes as a ‘wide range of beautifully expressive marks’.
Biografia:
English artist and designer, Charlotte Royle was born in 1964. A graduate of textile arts in 1985, she worked in the design of fabrics for over 17 years and has presented her works in England, the USA and France. Since 1997, she has focused her art and her inspiration on painting and drawing, to develop its relationship with the world of imagination, color and nature, etc ... Works have been exhibited in Edinburgh, London and Birmingham as well as Marrakech and Casablanca.