Charlotte is an artist from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Waynesville, North Carolina. In addition to jewelry making, she paints and draws. These practices inform and feed one another in a lateral, intuitive way; All of her three-dimensional metal pieces begin as two-dimensional drawings, and most of her paintings are observed from life and translated onto a flat plane.

 

Alongside academic training at UNC Chapel Hill (Psychology BS, Studio Art BFA), she worked as a Bench Jeweler. She is currently attaining her MFA in Visual Art at the University of Kansas. 

 

She considers herself both craftswoman and artist, finding joy in the processes of creating and problem-solving, regardless of medium. In the age of the internet and digital media, she finds particular value in tactile crafts like oil painting and metalsmithing. If doomscrolling is a passive and numbing consumption, artmaking is its opposite: an act of intention, labor, and creation. She hopes to continue working in this way. 

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