Polished Silence by Charlotte Turner
Charlotte Turner is a Devon-based artist whose contemplative practice explores the rhythms of the natural world through an intuitive, process-led response to coastal landscapes.
Working with a restrained palette, Turner builds luminous surfaces through successive, delicate layers of paint, sanding back between applications. The resulting works—sometimes realised in a handful of layers, at other times in over thirty—appear textural yet reveal a polished, tactile finish evocative of sea-worn stones. This material sensitivity and insistence on surface speaks to a deep consideration of form, memory and touch.
Integral to her practice is a solitary, meditative discipline incorporating daily rituals that foster reflection and creative clarity. Each painting emerges as a quiet act of devotion—an exploration of the liminal space between land, sea and self.
Turner is a trustee of the Brisons Veor Charitable Trust Artists’ Residency and a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists. Her parallel work as a creativity coach with Beacon Psychology further reflects her commitment to the intersection of art and mental wellbeing. Through her practice, Turner offers a nuanced meditation on materiality, landscape and the restorative power of making.
