Lynette Charters

Always lots of great art to consider and celebrate.
Proves to be a great show. 🌼

Thank you Rachel Benton of The Jolt News for the lovely interview and write-up about my time on The Goofy Movie.

(Looking for a local Olympia area gallery space to do a Docent/Missing Women Voices performance, if anyone has any ideas I’d be all ears).

Olympia artist Lynette Charters reflects on her time as FX animator on Disney's ‘A Goofy Movie’ - The JOLT News Organization, a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Beloved Olympia artist, Harlequin Productions Gallery curator, and someone I feel very lucky to call a friend, Lynette ...

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

Please join Lucy Gentry, Lynn Helbrecht, Rose Nicholas and I for the South Sound Studio Tour this Sat & Sun 11-4pm at LGM & LCS Studios downtown. Stop number 12.
I have an artist talk at 1pm on Saturday. Lynn’s will be on Sunday at 2pm. Lots of new work to see! 🌿

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. :)

I will be showing all new work at the South Sound Studio tour next weekend. May 30-31, 11-4pm Please come and see, and say hi to Lucy Gentry, Lynn Helbrecht, Rose Nicholas, and I.

From The Matilda Effect Series:
Missing Karen Carpenter
Acrylic and colored pencil on mounted vintage vinyl LP
(Thanks to Lantern Records).
12"d

When I was teeny in the 60s my parents kept the radio under our MCM sideboard. When Karen Carpenter started singing I would always crawl under so I could be closer to her beautiful voice. She was amazing. We still miss her.
“Every sha-na-na…”

They deemed her drumming too unfeminine so they forced her in front with the microphone. I watched the documentary recently where they seemed to blame her mother for her eating disorder...not the patriarchal system which created the family dynamic and also her eating disorder. Blame the mom, not the system. That's how patriarchy works.

This and other new pieces will be showing at LGM & LCS Studios at the South Sound Studio Tour May 30 & 31.

From The Missing Women Series:
Strang's Vita Sackville-West in a Red Hat with hand painted MCM wallpaper background.
Acrylic on board
3 X 4'

With all the red protest hats, I thought I’d join in.
Sackville west was a successful and prolific novelist and writer.
She published many collections of poetry and 13 novels. She was awarded the Hawthornden Prize twice. She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her lover Virginia Woolf.

You can see this piece at the South Sound Studio Tour this year at LGM and LCS Studios downtown Olympia. Also will be showing Lucy Gentry, Lynn Helbrecht, and Rose Nicholas.
Hope to see you there.🌺