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  © Charlie Sheard    "Abstraction in oil, alkyd resin, copper powder, resin, slate dust, marble dust, phlogopite glimmer yellow, wax, on oil primed linen"    2007
  mixed media on linen   198 x 148 cm   $20,000

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  © Charlie Sheard    "Abstraction in oil and alkyd resin on linen"    2007
  mixed media on linen   183 x 153 cm   $18,500

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  © Charlie Sheard    "Night Rain"    1998
  oil on linen canvas   77 x 122cm   $12,000

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  © Charlie Sheard    "Jade Peak"    
  Oil on linen canvas   91 x 122 cm   

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  © Charlie Sheard    "Abstraction in acrylic, oil varnish, oil, wax film, oil-wax dispersion, linen, acrylic priming"    2007
  mixed media on linen   122 x 152 cm   $16,500

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  © Charlie Sheard    "Cloud"    
  Oil on linen canvas   102 x 91 cm   

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  © Charlie Sheard    "Green Forms in Red Air"    2006
  oil on linen   152 x 305cm   $30,000

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  © Charlie Sheard    "Abstraction in acrylic, vinyl, paper, chalk in acrylic dispersion, acrylic primed linen"    2007
  mixed media on linen   214 x 198cm   $28,000

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  © Charlie Sheard    "Landscape"    2004-05
  oil on linen   102 x 92cm   $12,500

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  © Charlie Sheard    "Emanation"    
  Oil on linen canvas   91 x 122 cm   

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  © Charlie Sheard    "Green Mountain"    
  Oil on linen canvas   102 x 91 cm   
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  © Charlie Sheard    "Abstraction in vinyl, acrylic, oxidised copper reaction, acrylic attachments, de-waxed shellac, over vinyl on acrylic primed linen"    2007
  mixed media on linen   153 x 122 cm   $16,500

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  © Charlie Sheard    "Abstraction in acrylic, vinyl, oil, pigmented resin, acrylic primed linen"    2007
  mixed media on linen   305 x 152 cm   $30,000

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  © Charlie Sheard    "Abstraction in acrylic, vinyl, oil, wax, stand oil, on raw linen and acrylic sealing"    2007
  mixed media on linen   198 x 214cm   $28,000

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  © Charlie Sheard    "Stone"    
  Oil on linen canvas   102 x 91 cm   

Charlie Sheard

ABOUT THE ARTIST   |   VIEW SELECT AVAILABLE WORKS

Two artists have inspired me continuously for twenty years, the sixteenth century Venetian painter Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), and the twentieth century poet Ezra Pound. In the work of both of these men, technical mastery of the highest order is married to visionary intensity and spendour.

For some years I have been working with techniques in general from Venetian Renaissance models, and in particular from Titian, whose pictures exhibit extraordinary layering of colour, thereby achieving an unprecedented richness and complexity of optical effect. Such effects, arising out of the dynamic relationship between opacity and transperancy in the oil medium, lend themselves suggestively to the rendering of atmospheric light. Like many painters before me (such asTurner, and Monet in his late work), I have drawn deeply on this branch of Titian's endeavour.'

- Charlie Sheard,

from Exhibition Catalogue 'Homage to Tiziano and Ezra Pound,' 2000

Biography

Charlie Sheard has exhibited for two decades and has held more than forty solo exhibitions in Australia, Europe and USA. His work is represented in corporate, public and private collections within Australia and overseas. Charlie Sheard lived in England for seven years in the 1980's, exhibiting with Angela Flowers Gallery and Anne Berthoud Gallery in London, and at Kettles Yard Gallery in Cambridge, as well as in Belgium. He returned to Australia in 1988 and has been living in Sydney since 1990. Charlie is represented by Tim Olsen Gallery in Sydney and Christine Abrahams Gallery in Melbourne. Recent solo exhibitions include his Orphic Hymns which opened the McGrath Galleries in New York. At the beginning of 2004, Charlie completed large scale commissions for the new KMPG building in Sydney. He is also the founder and principal of the Charlie Sheard Studio School, where he offers a three year course in historical oil painting techniques to a small group of professional level students.

Collections

The World Bank, New York
Macquarie Bank, Sydney
Atanaskovic Hartnell, Sydney
Allen Allen & Hemsley, Sydney
Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge
Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Gadens Ridgeway, Sydney
Faber-Castell Collection
Western Mining, Melbourne
Regent Hotel, Sydney
Blake Dawson Waldron, Melbourne
Deakin University
KPMG Australia
and numerous private collections in the UK, USA, Belgium and Australia.�

Selected Bibliography

Charlie Sheard, “Basil Bunting and Music”, The Present Tense, Autumn 1982
Susanna Short, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 March 1985
Art in Australia, Summer, 1985-86
Hilary Gresty, Cambridge Festival Programme, 1986
Kettle’s Yard Gallery Bulletin, July - August 1986
Christopher Chippindale, Visions of Stonehenge, Catalogue essay, Southhampton City Art Gallery 1987
Lawrence George, Style, issue No.1, December 87
Elwyn Lynn, The Australian, 13 February, 1988
David Bromfield, The West Australian, 30 July, 1989
Penny Webb, Agenda, Issue No. 9, December, 1989
Agenda, Issue No. 11, April, 1990
Max Germaine, Art and Artists of Australia,1991
Charlie Sheard, “Ildiko Kovacs”, Agenda, January 1991
Geoffrey Boccalatte, “Hugh Jamieson”, Australian Art Collector, Issue 2, 1998
Sebastian Smee, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 September 1998
‘Australia’s 50 Most Collectable Artists’, Australian Art Collector, Issue no.7, January 1999
Megan Hitchens, “Songs for Dionysos, Wei Xiong and Lucy”, Catalogue essay, Tim Olsen Gallery 1999
Sebastian Smee, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 August 1999
Joyce Morgan, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 October 1999
‘Australia’s 50 Most Collectable Artists’, Australian Art Collector, January 2000
Sebastian Smee, Sydney Morning Herald, January 2001
Siobhan O’brian, ‘”Gods and Small Things”, Sydney Morning Herald, 3 May 2001
Charlie Sheard, ‘”Abstraction: Spirit, Light, Pure Form” Catalogue Essay , pub. Tim Olsen Gallery 2001 Betsy Brennan, Vogue Living, June-July 2001
Victoria Hynes, “Light Brigade”, Sydney Morning Herald , Metro 15 June 2001
Terry Ingram, Australin Financial Review: Saleroom, 4 April 2002
Charlie sheard, Nine Paintings,catalogue essay, Tim Olsen Gallery, 2002
Jeff Makim, Herald Sun "Critics Choice" , 10 May 2004
Robert Nelson, The Age,"Sightlines", 21 May 2004
He Wei Xiong and Charlie Sheard, Mountain, translation of Chinese poems, Tim Olsen Gallery, 2002
The Age "Art Around the Art Galleries", 28th October 2006
McCulloughs Encyclopedia of Australian art, 4th Edition, 2006�