The Art of Charles Bataille

I would like to draw your attention to a great friend of mine and a formidable artist, Charles Bataille.

Born in Lille, Charles has always been a creative expressionist. His c.v. is eclectic, from working for Walt Disney as a portrait painter to collaborating artistically with Louis Vuitton for five years. In 1997 he chose to redirect his focus from ‘art for food’ to creating art for the love of being freely creatively expressive.

I have known Charles for many years through my parents and he has been of inspiration to me. His work displays a vast range of skills and subjects, from his fluid and powerful matadors to his comedic yet moody cows. On occasion, I find myself worrying that my work does not seem to be too coherent…that I display too much variety in my styles. Yet, Charles’s work reminds me that as long as I am true to the image that I am trying to create and that I am being truly free in my expression, that being of one (potentially restrictive) style is not necessary. For the creative subconsciousness to control the paint brush and to be only minutely self-aware, is a beautiful way to create art.

I would like to quote Charles, ‘The creed in my painting boils down to: “Freedom of thinking and Freedom of painting the fruit of my imagination”‘.