About Charlotte
Artist Statement
Charlotte Snipe is a British painter and multi-media artist based in Wiltshire. Her work spans across portraiture both in realism and abstract, as well as abstract expressionist to explore her core theme. Charlotte’s work focuses on emotion and the way this is both created and expressed in the human body; grief, pain, happiness, and the day to day goings on. Her use of varied materials aids Charlotte in her exploration in the way in which emotion is portrayed through her work. Working between a minimal palette to draw you into the relationship between shape and expression, to complex layers that can evoke a sense of calm in the chaos. Through her work, Charlotte invites the viewer to pause and take a moment for themselves, to process the detail, and take a deep breath.
Charlotte’s work took a turn in 2025, where she lost her mother-in-law and first child. These moments have since come across strongly in her work and the way she presents herself as an artist. Charlotte lives in the outskirts of Wiltshire with her husband, and west highland terrier Oscar. She graduated from the University of Reading in 2020 with an Honours degree in Art and Psychology. Charlotte has displayed work across the UK in London, Bath, and Swindon, as well as internationally in Ottawa (Canada).
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Awards and Exhibitions
Awards
2024
Highly Commended at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Summer Show, with Lines.
Exhibitions
2025
Swindon Paint Fest, Town Centre, Swindon
Marlborough Open Studios, Potterne, Wiltshire
Emotion, Mam’s Gallery, Swindon
2024
Swindon Open Studios, Carriage Works, Swindon
Swindon Paint Fest, Swindon
The Fabric of Life, ArtSite, Swindon
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Summer Exhibition, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham
Secret Submissions, Swindon Arts Fringe, Swindon
Pure Abstract, Swindon Arts Fringe, Swindon
Footprint Open Exhibition, Footprint Gallery, Jackfield
Annual Open Exhibition, The White Horse Bookshop, Marlborough
2023
Reawakening Group Exhibition, Trinity Collective, Swindon
Bath Open Art Prize, 44AD Artspace, Bath
Calne Arts and Music Festival Annual Exhibition, Marden House, Calne
Swindon Open Studios, The Barn, Stanton Park, Swindon
Swindon Paint Fest, Wood Street, Swindon
Solo Show, Mams Gallery, Swindon
Annual Open Exhibition, The White Horse Bookshop, Marlborough
2020
Asbestos Streams – University of Reading Degree Show Group Exhibition, Online
Road Works Ahead [I Sure Hope It Does] – Interim University of Reading Degree Show Exhibition, Reading, UK
2019
Bloomin’ – Growing into Art – Selected Group Exhibition at Stour Space, London, UK
Same Faces Different Places – Selected Group Exhibition at University of Reading Art Dept.
Sans Camera – Selected Group Exhibition at Paradigm(e) Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
2018
Wooden Jungle – Selected Group Exhibition at Hamelin, Ottawa, Canada
Don’t Feed The Stereotype – Selected Group Exhibition at Agora, Ottawa, Canada
Sans Camera – Selected Group Exhibition at Galerie 5.6, Ottawa, Canada
Plastered Heads – Selected Group Exhibition at Hamelin, Ottawa, Canada
2017
Don’t Look At Me – Selected Group Pop Up Exhibition at University of Reading, UK
Midnight Colours – Selected Group Exhibition at Speakeasy Cocktail Bar, Reading, UK
2016
Selected Group Window Exhibition at Hughenden Yard, Marlborough, UK
Publications and Features
Publications & Features
2024
Collaboration with Vibish Brewing
2023
Polemical Zine Issue 19: Blue
Swindon Paint Fest – Exhibition mention on the BBC website (1), and BBC website (2).
Swindon Paint Fest – Swindon Advertiser
Creating a Collection of Faces by Charlotte Abraham – Swindon Artists Forum Guest Post
2019
ArtLab – ArtLab Summer School Day 1 – New Christ Church Primary School Year 6
I Am, We Are, Different By Design – University of Reading School of Arts and Communication Design Zine, Summer 2019
ArtLab – Tate Exchange 2019
The Eye That Looks – University of Reading Creative Arts Anthology 2019
uOttawa Gazette – Challenging stereotypes, one label at a time
2018
ArtLab – Reading Scholars Final Event 2018
ArtLab – Tate Exchange with Reading Scholars
