Charlotte Edsell’s work moves between abstraction and figuration with intuitive precision. There’s a delicacy to how she approaches the surface, a quiet confidence that allows form to emerge gradually, revealed through process rather than imposed.
Grounded in materiality, her paintings unfold as visual meditations, where subtle references to nature, memory, and place surface through distinct colour palettes and rhythmic gestures.
The result is a body of work that is lyrical and cinematic in pace, each painting a part of a wider unfolding sequence. Forms repeat or dissolve across the canvas like visual echoes. You’re not so much looking at something as sensing it: a felt experience that mirrors the fluidity of memory and the complexity of perception. The viewer is drawn into a space that is at once intimate and expansive.
Edsell exhibits regularly and her work is held in private collections across the UK and US. Collectors respond to the work’s quiet intensity and the ability to communicate emotion. She contributes a distinctive, process-led voice to contemporary abstraction.