Charlotte Guernsey — Paintings
A Life Spent Looking,
and Learning to See.
Charlotte Guernsey has been painting since before most people decide what they want to do with their lives. Trained privately from her early teens by artists whose lineage traces back to American Impressionist Frank DuMond, she inherited rare and refined methods of direct painting rooted in the techniques of Rembrandt, Velázquez, and John Singer Sargent.
By fifteen she was exhibiting and selling in galleries. She went on to study at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she deepened her knowledge of art history and explored the full range of what painting can do.
What followed was a body of work that moves between the equestrian world she loves, the landscapes she lives in, the animals that surround her, and the quiet drama of a still life or a portrait. Each painting is a record of looking — patient, practiced, and entirely her own.
Six bodies of work. One artist's eye.
Browse the collections below.
The Work
Charlotte's paintings are oil on canvas, rendered in the classical tradition — direct painting, careful observation, no shortcuts. The equestrian work draws on her life with horses, including her two Icelandic geldings. The charcoal drawings capture movement the way only charcoal can. The still lives carry the quiet weight of things observed with patience. Together they form the record of a working artist who has never stopped looking.
