19/03/2024
For today's artist feature we have, T.A. Charron.
T. A. Charron (Theodore Arthur Charron) is a native New Englander. Charron was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and raise, on the Charron Farm, in South Attleboro, Massachusetts. Charron has studied with “The Boston School” classically trained painter, Robert Douglas Hunter and with the “Howard Pyle Lineage” illustrator, Norman Baer. Also, he studied with watercolorist, Murray Wentworth and with Canadian artist, Robert Bateman, to name a few.
Early in his studies, Charron was a self-taught artist, drawing family members and farm animals in their surroundings, from life. Charron is a devoted en plein air painter, for over 50 years.
He is a graduate of the Art Institute of Boston (College of Art and Design at Lesley University) and graduated in 1972. He did additional studies in sculpture, with sculptor, Veryl Goodnight and stone lithography, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
Charron has received over 100 awards for excellence, in both painting and drawing. He has been elected into many American art societies and organizations including the Salmagundi Club in New York, the Lyme Art Association in Connecticut, and the North Shore Art Association and Rockport Art Association and Museum in Massachusetts.
His artwork is in the permanent collections of museums and other public and private collections worldwide. His commissioned paintings of Dr. Martin Luther King and Astronaut Ronald McNair and other significant portraits, of people of color, have been unveiled to thousands of people at the Hall of Black Achievement events, at Bridgewater State University. Charron’s paintings have been published in five historical books, and his art has been featured nationally and on local cable news stations.
If you would like to see more of Ted's work, stop by Wet Paint Tamworth this year or check him out on his website!
tacharron.com
Featured:
Pond of Gold, 11" x 14"
Mountain Field, 20" x 16"
Red Ball, 4" x 4"
