Charlotte’s recent work explores how architectural spaces relate to direct and diffused light. To the artist, the play of light on a structure invokes a sense of nostalgia. Aiming to capture this personal and often fleeting sensation visually was the motivation for this body of work.

 

Working with copper plate etching, the artist does not use line work but employs aquatint to create a range of tonal values. This creates prints with a hazy, delicate quality, as if they are images recovered from a memory. As a response to these prints, a set of plates with sharp stencil-like images was produced. Deriving from the same source images, these highly contrasted images evoke something more fragmentary and abstracted.

 

These series are inspired by the work of Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space (1958). The writer ascribes internal spaces of a dwelling as the place where one is at their most unselfconscious, where creative imagination and dreaming can take place.