Lynette Charters

I'm thrilled to announce that From The Matilda Effect Series: Missing Alice Ball, and Missing Cecilia Payne will be showing at the 24th Annual Local Juried Art Exhibition at The Art Gallery at Tacoma Community College, which is one of my favorite local galleries. The shows here are always inspirational and educational. I hope you get to check it out.
Important dates:
June 30 - Aug 20.
Reception July 16, 4-6pm

Many thanks to all those who visited for the South sound Studio Tour. It was a great pleasure to meet everyone. Thank you for supporting artists and the arts. 🌺🌿
Photo credit: Lynn Helbrecht

From The Matilda Effect Series:
Missing Jeanne Baret
Acrylic and colored pencil on cotton kitchen towel
16 X 24” Sold

She was a French 18C botanist, naturalist and explorer. Disguised as a man, she used the name Jean Baret to gain access to an expedition on ships becoming the first woman who circumnavigated the world. She was an expert botanist and took the job of valet to naturalist Philibert Commerson.
She had already had a son with him and had to give him up for adoption. Commerson was sickly so Baret collected the specimens herself and did much of the work carrying and recording specimens. It is recorded that he called her a "beast of burden". While over seventy species are named in honor of Commerson, only one, Solanum baretiae, honors Baret.

This and other new pieces will be showing in the at LGM & LCS Studios, May 30 & 31, 11-4pm, number 12 on the tour guide. Showing will be myself, Lucy Gentry, Lynn Helbrecht and Rose Nicholas. Come see!

I will be giving a talk in the studio on Saturday May 30th at 1pm.
Hope to see you there. Lynn will be talking on Sunday at 2pm, so if you miss my talk, come see Lynn, then speak to me after or before. :)