Charles Carey has been drawing, painting and making prints all his life.

He began his career as an artist in 1947 when, as a teenager, he left Sherborne School in Dorset to study in London at the unique Anglo-French Art Centre, established by Alf Green, in St Johns Wood, that introduced young English artists to the innovative work of continental contemporaries such as Roger LeCourier, Anton Clavé, Oscar Kokoshka, Germaine Richier, and Yankel Adler.

Following compulsory National Service that ended in 1950, Charles Wimbledon School of Art for some months before being accepted directly into the Royal College of Art. While waiting to begin his first term there, he worked for six months at the Festival of Britain then being developed on the South Bank. Charles graduated from the Royal College of Art with a French Government bursary that took him to Paris, where he worked in the atelier of printmaker Johnny Friedlander. He spent the end of this time travelling through France.

On his return to England, he began working at Wimbledon School of Art where he taught students for twenty-five years.

Charles Carey's work, primarily still lifes and landscapes, evokes internal spaces and experience through juxtapositions of simple forms, figures and objects, often suggestive of human relationships.

His works are held in a number of public and private collections.

The images shown on this site - paintings, drawings and prints, in a variety of media- represent a period of over seven decades of work.