I am a California native originally from Los Angeles. I have been in the Bay Area for over 40 years and I currently live in Benicia with my tennis pro husband and Fred, our cranky, lovable senior dog.

I come from a family of artists; my mother went to art school and was a ceramicist, and my sister is a stained glass artist in Southern California. Both of us literally grew up making art. I began painting seriously using acrylics, but became fascinated with the luminosity and textures created by cold wax and oil paint and I have been working in that medium for about five years. I love abstraction and I am constantly looking for new ways to abstract figures and faces. The biggest compliment I can receive about my work is a viewer telling me that the painting made them feel something.

charlynn@charlynnthrockmorton.com

www.charlynnthrockmorton.com