Charlotte’s studies in the field of traditional printmaking have informed the shape of her art practice, which is influenced by the near inaccessibility of the earliest aspects of ourselves and where they might be articulated in the convergence between art and psychoanalysis. Her work reflects on where the remnants of our ancient selves might collect, too ill-defined to be experienced again, but there as a faltering echo in an internal universe. She considers whether these ungraspable elements of our early selves are held within and communicated through art’s affective dimension.

The long-established printing techniques she employs in her work, including monotype, lithography and etching, reflect these primordial aspects of ourselves and create a screen between her as artist and the viewer. The gestures are put just at arms length, which gives the artwork a level of restraint that plays against the marks she creates. The surface looks undulating and fraught, but is, at the same time, smooth and flat and still.