Acrylic Painting
Casey Charles
Casey Charles is a Queensland based, contemporary realist artist working with oils on canvas.
Artist Profile
Casey Charles is a Queensland based, contemporary realist artist working with oils on canvas.
Landscapes, portraits, still lifes and street scenes are Casey’s prefered subjects – all in vivid colors, influenced by Vincent van Gogh, with Casey’s distinctive style that emanate joy. His work is inspired by the people, places and colors from his travels.
Behind each works lies the feeling of an equally intriguing story.
His artwork hangs in numerous private art collections throughout Australia, including the main lobby of the Vogue-on-Broadbeach Luxury Apartments (Gold Coast), as well as public spaces including the Radium Institute at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. In 2025, he won People’s Choice at the Sandgate Art Show, and Highly Commended at the RQAS Wild Creatures Exhibition. This is an addition to multiple awards across Australia over multiple decades.
Artist Interview
What medium do you work with, and why have you chosen them?
He works in oil on canvas. Casey sees the world in vivid colors, which can be best demonstrated in oil paints, and which will stand the test of time.
How does your artwork get from initial concept to exhibition stage?
Casey paints from images he stages or that he finds and photographs on holidays or daily life. He will combine (often multiple) images that have a common tapestry of color, to produce the single work. He then draws the image onto the canvas, and proceeds slowly to work the painting from top left to bottom right of the canvas, finishing as he goes. His method takes him into an almost meditative state of detachment, with his eclectic music sounding out over the neighborhood. Most of his average size paintings (100 x 75 cm in size) take over 60 hours to complete.
Can you tell us a little more about your creative working environment/studio?
I work in the sunroom of our apartment. We are in a gorgeous Art Deco building. It has lovely natural light and looks out to the street below. It is great people watching when I am stuck for inspiration. I like to have music, or podcasts going most of the time, or sometimes work quietly until I start to feel things coming together with the work and then the music kicks in. All depends how I am feeling on the day.
Career Highlights
- Recent awards include voted “People's Choice Award” at numerous art exhibitions, including the Sandgate Art Show(2025), at the at the Change Art Exhibition (held by the Australian Artists Association) in 2024, and at the Royal Qld Art Society Annual (both in 2024 and 2023). – He won both first prize and the people's choice award in the Qld Splash Exhibition (2023), and awarded first prize in the RQAS Annual Art Exhibition (on 4 occasions = 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2019), and the RNA (Royal National Association) Exhibition on 3 occasions. He also won the RQAS Abstract Painting Award in 2021, and the RSPCA Wild Creatures Award in 2020.
- He has been a finalist numerous times in major art competitions including “The Doyles”, “The Percival Portrait Prize”, the “Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award”, “Tattersall's Landscape Prize, ” the “Qld Figurative Art Prize”, the “Clayton Utz Art Prize”, “Facets Art Award”, and the “Rotary Art Show”, and has entered the Archibald Prize.
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