Charles Andrade paints in the colorist style that has evolved from his initial training in painting and art therapy, which he studied in England at Tobias School of Art & Therapy. With an in depth understanding of Goethean color theory, his artwork utilizes many washes of translucent color glaze  that express the dynamic movement of light, color and darkness.  

Andrade took a break from the large, fluid painting format to investigate chalk pastel painting while living in France creating a series of pastel paintings depicting the Côte d'Azur mountain villages. 

His artwork can be found in private collections in North America, Europe, and New Zealand. 

Andrade has owned and operated Lazure Custom Wall Designs for over 25 years - a mural and decorative painting business, specializing in a unique European glazing finish called Lazure that creates healing interior environments. 

Charles teaches fine art classes, lectures, and offers Lazure and painting workshops worldwide.  

“The fluid quality of the color is very important as it mirrors the transcendent quality of the human soul. Much like a true process of thinking, where one begins with a hazy idea of what one wants to focus on with the mind, gradually the spiraling process of creation intensifies from the light to the darkness of a concrete thought or the material end of a painting.

In the pastel medium, I am interested in the form of things, opaque color and how value creates the forms I am trying to define. I see it as a balance to the ethereal large scale wall and canvas work I do otherwise: contraction and expansion, two principles of human life and being.”