Charlotte grew up in the Hudson Valley in Garrison, NY.   Surrounded by art and architecture from the hay day of the Industrial Age, Charlotte was very inspired by the beauty and craftsmanship of this period in time.   As a teenager Charlotte studied classical painting and learned a foundation of how the masters worked.  Some of her teachers were even taught by the direct student descendants of  the American Impressionists.

Her favorite painter of that time was the amazing portrait artist, John Singer Sargent.   She began selling her paintings at 15 years old, showing her work in galleries in NY, CT and RI.  She won numerous awards for her oil paintings.