Charles Wooldridge

Wooldridge is an innovative artist who works in many different mediums.  His drawings and paintings inspire his involvement with sculpture.  His desire to manipulate his paintings, to cut them up and play with them, makes him a sculptor.  His unique painting process has evolved over ten years. It is somewhat of a paradox, since his surfaces are essentially flat, no thicker than a few thousandths of an inch.  Yet they evoke an incredible illusion of depth and movement with up to forty underpaintings in different areas.  Wooldridge likes to think of his paintings as places where the abstract becomes real not through texture or physical shaping, but rather through his style, which creates the illusion of sculpture.