170. Charlotte Aiken - Vision

2026
Oil on water colour paper mounted to wooden panel
16 x 10 cm (unframed) 19.4 x 13.4 x 3.4 cm (framed)
Signed on Verso

Charlotte Aiken is a Gloucestershire-based artist whose practice centres on creating visual impressions of clouds through oil painting. Her work celebrates the sublimity of the sky, exploring a long-standing fascination with shifting cloud formations and fleeting atmospheric moments that exist between representation and abstraction.

Aiken’s paintings emerge from a heightened sensitivity to colour, light, and perception. Describing the world as feeling intensely exposed and vivid, she uses paint as a means of processing and understanding visual experience. Layers of colour, gestural brushwork, and translucent surfaces become physical manifestations of the way she perceives the atmosphere, allowing the paintings to hover between observation, sensation, and emotional response.

Working within the traditions of landscape painting while pushing towards abstraction, her works evoke moments of suspension and transience, capturing the instability and movement of weather, light, and memory.

Aiken completed a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at The School of Art, Architecture and Design, London (2014–2017), following a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at OCAD, UK (2013–2014).

Selected exhibitions include Soho Open at GPS Gallery, London (2025); Rituals of Perception at D Contemporary, London (2025); Charlotte Aiken at Prema Arts Centre, Uley (2025); The Other Art Fair, London (2025); Guildford House Open at Guildford House, Guildford (2024); Fifteen at Soho Revue, London (2024); Beyond Reach at St John Street Gallery, Stroud (2024); Art on a Postcard Winter Auction at Gathering, London (2023); and Only Connect at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London (2023).

In 2017, Aiken received the Graduate Art Prize from ARTIQ. Her work is held in collections including the Artiq x EQT London Collection, the Artiq x Corinthia London Print Collection, and several private corporate collections in London.