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An artist for more than 30 years, Charlie Goodwin has worked with a number of themes repeatedly, but in recent years landscapes have again captured his imagination. Yet when Goodwin paints landscapes, what catches his eye are not waterfalls and grazing cattle but the spare places, where the salient features are signs and power transformers. In the image “Matrix,” for example, a mundane collection of oil storage tanks is transformed into a tapestry of interlocking lines and spheres that challenges the viewer’s sense of perspective.
“In these paintings,” explains Goodwin, “are elements plucked from the ordinary surroundings of our lives. Given the right time and circumstances, places and things we might otherwise pass without a glance instead beckon for a second look.” Whatever the specifics of the image, Goodwin notes, his views are tempered by an enduring fascination with light and color. “Even when I have worked in near monochrome, I find myself thinking about and working on color,” he notes.
Goodwin has refined his artistic vision through study at the Germaine School of Photography in New York, the Manchester Institute of Arts & Sciences (now known as the New Hampshire Institute of Art), and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA. In addition to showing at Anderson-Soule Art Consulting, Goodwin has also exhibited his works at The ArtSpaceMaynard in Maynard, MA and the AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH.
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