Charles Cater Blogs

What defines an abstract landscape? For me, it is when the textural environment of an image could be imagined as being a landscape in a strange or unknown place. My mind creates worlds apart from reality...but ones which seem somehow feasible to ... 

Why even use colour? There are of course many reasons why one may feel compelled to use colour in the image. Equally, as my recent work experimenting with white and black has shown, it is possible to create a very dramatic affect even with this ... 

Nature's intricacy and diversity has always been a source of great fascination and inspiration to me. Although my work is strictly abstract, it is plain to see that one can readily make a connection between a portion of one of my images and for e... 

Having spent many years focusing on colour and texture in my acrylic work, more recently I've been experimenting with white on black - and have been fascinated by the results. I have created a gallery of my white on black work here : http://fine... 

Charles Cater's garden was part of the National Garden Scheme's open day yesterday - and over 400 people were able to enjoy the wonderful textures and year round colour of his wonderful garden as well as view his paintings. Sadly the weather was far...