Charles completed his Art Foundation in Hastings, East Sussex, where he met and fell in love with a fellow student. She became his first live-in girlfriend when they shared a nearby chalet. He was 19 years old and she was his first model and muse, letting him sketch her naked. It was then that Charles found his first taste for erotic art.
After time spent as a secondary school art teacher, he undertook various evening classes to gather new ideas and technique, and experimenting in the use of different media such as mosaics and resins. He then embarked on a serious career as a painter of erotica, particularly the female genitalia, around 12 years ago.

Charles has painted the genitalia of literally 100s of women. Glamour model Jo Guest has modelled for him, but generally his models are girlfriends, former girlfriends and women that he has met and with whom he struck up conversation.
It seems that the idea of one’s genitalia being immortalised on canvas breaks down those barriers and also helps to loosen the clothing!

Amongst Charles more interesting models was a contortionist who could, of course, strike poses that the more conventional amongst us could never manage. However, one of his most vivid memories was of a professional porn model, met through a magazine launch, who agreed to a free photo shoot on Hampstead Heath. Imagine late one morning, a beautiful, naked, statuesque and well oiled lady cavorting around Hampstead Heath much to the excitement of the joggers, dog walkers and other passers-by.

One of Charles’ ambitions is to hold an exhibition of 1,000 women, to show the beauty and diversity of the female form, each woman and each pose different. Unfortunately, however, it seems that the fear of erotica and particularly the female form makes it very difficult for him to exhibit his work. The Guild of Erotic Art didn’t want him to join as it “did not want to offend”. Charles only just missed out in a claim to infamy when Eurotrash, that bastion of good taste, who had originally recorded a show featuring him and Charlotte, at the last minute pulled out. This was due to advance negative publicity where 4-5 people had complained that he had painted the female anus.

This advance and negative publicity from our prudish society seems to be a problem that has followed Charles around. He was exhibiting work with Candid Arts Gallery but it appears that they only showed 2 out of 6 works that he had put up for exhibition due to reasons of censorship. The 2 exhibited pieces being less explicit than the others. Strangely, however, I found when researching that some of Charles’ works are still shown on Candid Arts’ website, despite the fact that they no longer wished to exhibit his work. Charles’ work has also been featured in Nu, an Italian erotica journal and Hustler, a top-shelf magazine which proclaimed him to be the “Picasso of Porn”, not a title that he cares for.
Charles has literally hundreds of works of art that are crying out for exhibition. He is also available for private commissions. And imagine, what better present for a boyfriend, girlfriend, lover, husband, wife than a painting of your own genitalia?

Painter or pornographer? I will let you decide!

And finally, a little guessing game for your amusement:
Take a look at the picture gallery of Charles’ work and have a guess at which one is me. Answers on a postcard please!

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If you wish to contact Charles, please call him on 07984 844375