Charles Meanwell: Surroundings

For more than forty years, Charles Meanwell has painted the places that surround him. This new body of work is inspired by his recent move to Montreal and a deliberate choice to give up his car in favour of train travel and walking. Through these moments of motion, Meanwell distills his new home into lines, shapes, and blocks of colour, interspersing his soft colour palette with deeper reds and greens, echoing the city’s brick buildings and parks.

“I paint the spaces between the objects, and between the objects and the frame, rather than the objects themselves, making the subject of the painting the arrangement, rather than the content, of the painting.”

 

 

- Charles Meanwell