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Charlotte Lindley Martin comes from a long line of artists. Born 1953 in England she travelled to the USA with her American husband in 1980. She graduated from Philadelphia College of Art in 1985 with a BFA in Crafts where she studied with Liz Stewart and Bill Daley. She mentored with Bill Daley and has taken workshops with Chris Staley and Nancy Blum, Mark Pharis, Alleghany Meadows and most recently Andrea and John Gill, and Liz Lerner. She considers these workshops her graduate studies.
Early on in her career Charlotte began to search for a way to create functional pots with colorful decorated designs using the durability of high fire clay; these she called Hand Painted Porcelain.
Charlotte continued to explore her ideas and artistic vision with Bill Daley. Exploring form and surface on her functional pots led her to the highly embellished Baroque and Rococo porcelains of the late 19th century. Bill’s advice was to make modern pots out of those baroque impulses.
Mentorship continued with Jerry Bennett and the discovery of Porcelain Paper Clay. Hand building with Porcelain Paper Clay allows her to explore ideas and push forms into new realms. Flowers adorn this work, texture informs the surface, color adds emotional impact.
Recently Charlotte had an exhibition at the Philadelphia International Airport as part of the PHLAirportArt program. For this work she went a step further into the idea of the natural world and how its beauty transforms what we see as art.
