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Charles Basham

Charles Basham received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Kent State University in his native state of Ohio, where he still resides on the family farm where he grew up. He has been making art for thirty years, and, as a result, has enjoyed much acclaim for his visually stimulating and emotionally charged landscapes.

Throughout his career, Basham has become more and more attuned to the subtle changes in weather and atmosphere. In his pastels and oil paintings, the energy and impact of light is realized in harmonized color whose saturation and temperature have been pushed and raised beyond previous limits. In doing so, he has captured dramatic and compelling moments of morning and evening light over the farmlands of the Midwest and the marshes and beaches of the low country in South Carolina.

  

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 Paintings

       
Bluff's View - Blue Ridge 2009
Oil on Canvas
30 x 44 inches 
    Kiawah Marsh 2009
Oil on Canvas
8 x 21 inches
         
   
Freedom Park -
Mecklenburg County
2009
Oil on Canvas
6 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches
     
Man Made Lake -
Marrington Plantation
2009
Oil on Canvas
36 x 48 inches
         
 
From High Head Road,
North Truro
2009
Oil on Canvas
16 x 18 inches
    Spanish Moss and Pond -
Goose Creek
2009
Oil on Canvas
6 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches
         
 
High Banked Creek -
Patrick Farm
2009
Oil on Canvas
14 x 20 inches
   
Study for Man Made Lake -
Marrington Plantation
2009
Oil on Canvas
12 x 14 inches
         
         

 Pastels

       
   
Air Bellows Gap 2008
Pastel on Paper
11 x 13 3/4 inches
     
A Little East of Sparta 2008
Pastel on Paper
22 1/4 x 30 inches
         
   
Almost Seven 2002
Pastel on Paper
13 1/4 x 22 inches
     
Little Glade Pond - Blue Ridge Parkway 2009
Pastel on Paper
19 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches
         
   
Cuyahoga River Early April 2006
Pastel on paper
22 1/2 x 30 inches
     
Moonset on Leonard's Pond 2005
Pastel on paper
26 x 32 3/4 inches
         
   
Daylight's First Cut 2008
Pastel on Paper
30 x 44 1/2 inches
     
Study for Congaree 2009
Pastel on Paper
6 x 9 inches
         
   
Growing Warmer 2005
Pastel on Paper
26 x 41 inches
     
Treeline in Crimson 2004
Pastel on Paper
30 x 41 3/4 inches
         
   
Herring Cove Evening, Provincetown 2009
Pastel on Paper
22 1/2 x 30 inches
     
West Line of the Studio 2005
Pastel on Paper
22 x 30 inches