charles tersolo

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For Charles, architecture is personality. Colors, unique details, and intersecting forms demand the attention of his palette and brush. Many are painted directly from life, meditating on color and light that shifts with the passage of time. Years of painting outdoors, along with altering and projecting digital photography, have provided Charles the tools to paint locations all over the world with the same immediacy of his plein air works. Many extraordinary digital studies of Paris, New York City, Chicago, Florida, New England and the American Southwest await a commission to bring them to life in paint.

Around the world and in your backyard, there are buildings that are more than they need to be: they are giant outdoor sculpture. In detail, shape, complexity, materials, elegant proportion and the way they catch sun, they stop the eye and fire the imagination. Always in varying states of repair, these unique structures remind us that someone, somewhere, did more than they needed to. They tell us that perhaps we can also do more than we think we can.

Collectors may never experience these structures firsthand, at the exact moment they catch the sun just right. Charles works to recreate them on canvas in vibrant color and brushwork, allowing them to be enjoyed by patrons at the perfect moment, in the comfort of their homes. "As building construction can be one of the costliest endeavors, and details and materials can always be done more inexpensively, I hope these paintings encourage investment in both future inspiring structures, and care for ones already built."

Charles Tersolo graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art. He currently lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.