Artist Statement:

Charlie Lyon paints palm trees that bend and sway under swirling clouds. Charlie’s paintings are playful representations of palm trees that trigger a personal narrative for each person. The paintings remind everyone of that special time spent looking at a palm tree fluttering in the trade winds. We remember relaxing in the breeze while watching the clouds roll by. The paintings mix with our own experience and become imbedded with our individual memory.

His paintings are meditations on movement. The clouds sail by, changing, lingering, drifting away, while the tree clatters softly. He paints the sky first; spreading, smearing, pushing the paint, until a source of light dominates and a level of movement presents itself. He looks for interesting features of the light and seeks them out with the tree. The created tension causes movement toward, away, and back to those features. He creates the illusion of movement by emphasizing these points of subdued passion.