I remember receiving a set of pastels for a Christmas painting from my dear parents.
What fun I recall! The sister at my school was impressed with my dog painting, she asked if I
did it freehand, not sure what she meant, I did not know what to answer, I was eight years old.
I also recall painting a pastel painting of an "Olde Philadelphia" street scene and putting it
into the bin, to see if it was accepted for the school's literary magazine. I called the painting
"November Streets" as it was all browns, oranges, and purples with row houses, street lamps,
steps, with a feeling of motion to it. I was delighted that it was placed in the center of the
magazine and poetry was written by the students with that title. Mrs. Alessi was my teacher in
high school, she was very cool I thought with her little granny eyeglasses.
This was my first Olde Philadelphia painting.

I enjoy researching old photographs, also using my memories, my imagination  and try to
re-create a time period of how people lived and worked in times past such as Olde
Philadelphia circa 1910, or  perhaps in Revolutionary War times including the published
broadsides, flags etc. -  or paint a country scene, or a personal portrait by request.

My latest adventure is painting in an abstract impressionism  style which is such fun to
express the emotions of how I feel at a particular time. These paintings are done freely and
quickly. Please see the Contemporary pages in the Menu. Subjects include Pond scenes,
Flower Garden scenes among others.

Also new for me is painting "en plein air" or in the open air - especially when I am sitting on a
dock at my favorite Pocono pond, in a impressionist style.

I must give my credit to my dad for my artistic ability as he was a painter, so this was natural
for me to follow in his footsteps. He was very creative with writing, poetry, also. My mother
liked to paint on occasion too.
I  have worked in oil, watercolor, acrylics, and pastel on paper and canvas and have been
included in many professional exhibitions over the years. I have studied with various artists
also over the years.

On another note: I have worked for Procter & Gamble doing clerical work when younger, also
nanny work, teaching children art also as well as subbing for our school district, so I am very
good with children and raised my family of three children too.

Also I enjoy working in fabrics, in an "art quilt" style and am currently working on a handmade
quilt of Valley Forge circa 1777-1778 which I developed from one of my original paintings of
Valley Forge.
This has been an on-going project for several years

I do accept work for commission from your favorite photos, please get in touch for more
details, if you are interested. I also teach classes at the Tyme Art Gallery for Drawing &
Painting, please get in touch for more info.

Thanks for visiting!

Lois Allen Charles
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Lois Allen Charles
Ladyartbasket

Phone 610-265-9197
Email: loisc815@gmail.com
Lois'
paintings are
in many
private and
public
collections in
the US &
Europe.

Locally these
include the
King of
Prussia
Chamber of
Commerce,
Upper Merion
Township
Library, Upper
Merion
Township
Firehouse,
Upper Merion
Township
School
District, the
local  
McDonalds
Restaurant
:),our local
State Senator  
King of
Prussia office
among others.
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Tyme Gallery 17 W. Eagle Rd. Havertown, PA 19083 (work shown at Tyme Gallery
year round)

* ARTsisters (Professional Women' Juried Art Group)

* (Montgomery County Guild of Professional Artists)
Mcgopa (currently a Board Member)

*Artists Equity Philadelphia Juried Artist

*DaVinci Art Alliance Philadelphia PA

*Perkiomen Valley Art Center

*Cape May County Art League

*Greater Norristown Art League

*Friends of Valley Forge Park