Charlotte Verity

Charlotte Verity
Ponder (Plumbago), 2020
Oil on canvas
90.3 x 150.5 x 3.1 cm
2ft 11 ½ x 4ft 11 ¼ x 1 ¼ in.

Charlotte Verity’s practice is ultimately concerned with mapping the ephemeral qualities of her immediate surroundings. The way nature fluctuates, the seasons, the weather, the light – the life cycle of the plant life around us. As Verity works from her garden and studio, her subjects; taken from nature, are painted slowly over weeks and months. Vanishing moments are captured permanently. Each painting or print holds a narrative about the passage of time, an appreciation for the small marvels that can be found in nature. The curve of a stem, the colour of a flower, the formation of its petals, the matrix of branches and mass of leaves, all these delicate ecosystems of life that are moving through cycles that are both colossal and invisible.

Charlotte Verity (b. 1954), until recently worked and lived in London, and since 2022, in Somerset. After studying at the Slade School of Fine Art she was awarded the Slade Prize and Boise Travelling Scholarship. Her work resides in major private and public collections that include Arts Council England; Derby Museum and Art Gallery; the British Museum; Government Art Collection; Deutsche Bank; Garden Museum, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Sir John Soane’s Museum, London; Tate, and University College London. She has exhibited widely, most recently two solo exhibitions, Echoing Green at Karsten Schubert in London, and The Season’s Ebb here at the New Art Centre in Salisbury.

Selected group shows include Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut (2014); Sir John Soane’s Museum, London (2010); Tate Modern, London (2005); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1980)(1985)(1992); and John Moores Exhibition 17 at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (1987).