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An Atlanta native, Charlotte Riley-Webb moved with her family to Cleveland, Ohio as a toddler, she earned her B.F.A. degree from The Cleveland Institute of Art and has continued her education throughout the years. As a professional visual artist, Charlotte documented the essence of her culture in her three year traveling painting exhibition, “From Stories of My America, which debuted in Atlanta, in a one person exhibition in 2001. Over the years her venues extended across the country and beyond the states to include Surinam, South America and Anguilla, British West Indies. Webb’s paintings have been exhibited in numerous museums and fine art galleries throughout the country and are in many private, business and corporate collections.
Contemporary realistic with an abstract flair is how she described her representational works. This rhythmic style with bright bold colors, easily translated into the illustrations for three children’s books Rent Party Jazz and Sweet Potato Pie, for New York publisher, Lee and Low and The Entrance Place of Wonders, published by Abrams Books in January 2006. In it, Charlotte invited the reader to enjoy the rhythms of her paintings as they glided through what she feels was the most exciting cultural period for African Americans, The Harlem Renaissance. In it was documented poems written for children during that period.
An evolution of study, growth and expansion has led Charlotte to her new and present genre, abstract art.
Charlotte says, “Transitioning into Abstract art has been a natural, liberating experience for me as an artist. I have been exploring the relationships between line, space, texture, color, composition and emotional awareness in creating these new works and discovering how to make these elements relevant to my art working in acrylics, oils and pastels. I feel that abstract art represents the depths of ones artist soul.
A 2006 Pollack-Krasner Foundation Award recipient, Charlotte received six juried competition national awards, further validating her current genre. Fall of 2005, 2006 and 2007 she successfully completed artists’ residencies at the Hambidge Art Center where she began expanding the sizes of her works to include six & seven ft. abstract paintings.
Among her associations and gallery affiliations are; The National Association of Women Artists, AAAA, among several. The Webb rhythms continue to resonate far beyond the boundaries of her canvas and, likewise the abstract works and book illustrations have transitioned into her own unique Charlotte Riley-Webb energy and style. She has woven her shapes and colors into compositions which she calls “Earth Tunes”, these she feels are as valid, and have as much emotional power as music with a continuous medley of fresh, vibrant, and exciting images. The versatility of her style and new work is truly having national appeal. Please view art at the website: www.charlotterileywebb.com

An Atlanta native, Charlotte Riley-Webb moved with her family to Cleveland, Ohio as a toddler, she earned her B.F.A. degree from The Cleveland Institute of Art and has continued her education throughout the years. As a professional visual artist, Charlotte documented the essence of her culture in her three year traveling painting exhibition, “From Stories of My America, which debuted in Atlan... More