Chuck was born with a crayon in his hand. Some say he came with heels and a tiara also. The point being he was creative in his first breath. To him creating is what God is all about. Even in grade school his peers and teachers encouraged his art. He was raised in a very small town in Idaho. So, he was the resident artist. The kids would always elect him to design the class float (which they never won once in four years!). The true artist he was could not be accused of having much school spirit. In college he had some wonderful mentors. A professor gave him a "B" and Chuck went to his office and argued. He told the professor he was the best artist in the class and why he would give an "A" to a student who clearly was not as good. The professor said that the student gave it his all and that it was the best he could do. When chuck did the same, he would get an "A". Well that stuck. For the most part it has been all or nothing throughout his life. During college he did illustrations for three different department stores. One was for a big fashion store, THE PARIS. One was strictly for the children’s department at VANS. The third was for ROPER’s which were predominately young men’s clothing ads... Each had their own style. Moving to Salt Lake City he was working retail and kept seeing hideous newspaper ads by a store, THE PARIS (not related to the above store). He went to the store manager and showed him some samples of their ads and redone how he would have done them. He was hired on the spot. He worked there until the store merged and was closed. He did a brief stint for Skaggs grocery stores. During this time, he became involved in the Utah Artist Guild, a for profit gallery in Salt Lake. He became a co-owner and managed the Gallery. When he parted ways, art was on the back burner for many years as he worked a day job. Word processing. Legal assistant. Nothing noteworthy. Upon moving to Seattle at thirty he decided he wanted to be known as chuck the artist and not chuck the legal secretary, so he printed up a business card. It was a generic black and white which was all the rage then. You would see whole aisles at grocery stores of boxes and cans all in white with big bold CORN or PEAS, CORNFLAKES, you get the idea. His card was white stock with big bold letters, ARTIST and his phone number. Now this was the days before the internet and talk about ambiguous. But it was the right idea at the right time. He decided if he was going to be Chuck the Artist, he had better start creating. At the time he did graphic paintings of people, some out his imagination and commission portraits. Having a piece of artwork looking back at you with a beautiful face and searching eyes was incredible. He could get those looks of awe and admiration from his work! He swore he would never paint anything that didn’t have a person in it for the rest of his life. So…… fast forward.Chuck rarely includes any human forms in his paintings. Or even the existence of humans in his work. And if he does it is in context of humor and cartoon. He always was an observer and not really in the game, so he laughs at the silliness of human nature and how we take things too seriously. He is known for abstract landscapes. He has shown in galleries in Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Nevada and California. His landscapes have become more sensual moving organic forms of color than landscapes. The dance! Ahh yes, the dance. His art is about movement. Swaying, undulating, pushing and pulling. Dancing with his paintings. They are partners in his life. His secrets. They whisper and twirl and shout as if they were children in a playground. It doesn’t matter if chuck is laughing with his cartoon characters and giggling about how silly we all are or fighting with a tempest or quieting a cloud. His art represents the man. The every changing multi-faceted very left of center human being!