Lynette Charters

Always lots of great art to consider and celebrate.
Proves to be a great show. 🌼

Please join Lucy Gentry, Lynn Helbrecht, Rose Nicholas and I for the South Sound Studio Tour this Sat & Sun 11-4pm at LGM & LCS Studios downtown. Stop number 12.
I have an artist talk at 1pm on Saturday. Lynn’s will be on Sunday at 2pm. Lots of new work to see! 🌿

From The Matilda Effect Series:
Missing Karen Carpenter
Acrylic and colored pencil on mounted vintage vinyl LP
(Thanks to Lantern Records).
12"d

When I was teeny in the 60s my parents kept the radio under our MCM sideboard. When Karen Carpenter started singing I would always crawl under so I could be closer to her beautiful voice. She was amazing. We still miss her.
“Every sha-na-na…”

They deemed her drumming too unfeminine so they forced her in front with the microphone. I watched the documentary recently where they seemed to blame her mother for her eating disorder...not the patriarchal system which created the family dynamic and also her eating disorder. Blame the mom, not the system. That's how patriarchy works.

This and other new pieces will be showing at LGM & LCS Studios at the South Sound Studio Tour May 30 & 31.

From The Missing Women Series:
Strang's Vita Sackville-West in a Red Hat with hand painted MCM wallpaper background.
Acrylic on board
3 X 4'

With all the red protest hats, I thought I’d join in.
Sackville west was a successful and prolific novelist and writer.
She published many collections of poetry and 13 novels. She was awarded the Hawthornden Prize twice. She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her lover Virginia Woolf.

You can see this piece at the South Sound Studio Tour this year at LGM and LCS Studios downtown Olympia. Also will be showing Lucy Gentry, Lynn Helbrecht, and Rose Nicholas.
Hope to see you there.🌺