Raised in the city of San Francisco, Charlotte Reider-Smith’s relationship with paint began at an early age, when she was handed a brush and allowed to go wild on the bathroom walls! In 2015 Charlotte relocated to Vermont to study art at Middlebury College where she discovered the magic of oil paint. Four years and many paintings later, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in Studio Art.

 

Charlotte is currently pursuing her MFA through the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is thrilled to be part of a community to support the successes and challenges of creating and sustaining the practice of art-making. Charlotte works from her home studio, rooted in the land in Goshen, Vermont.

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Charlotte’s inspiration comes from the many layers of her life experiences and the people around her. Her work is primarily sourced from her own photographs, using the lens of the camera to capture moments that speak to connection, vulnerability, motherhood, family, and generational ties.

 

By building her paintings through a dynamic process of molding, scraping, dripping, and layering paint, Charlotte is constantly exploring, seeking image-making and truth-finding both internally and expressed outwardly through painting. Charlotte hopes her work will touch the places deep inside of us which connect us to our most true selves, something she endeavors to practice each day.