ABOUT ARTIST CHARLOTTE "CHARLEE" SHROYER
Several years ago Charlotte “Charlee” Shroyer listened to the “music of her soul,” left a 20-year career as a teacher and college professor, and started on the path which would eventually lead her to the fine art community of Taos, New Mexico. Forty years before her Taos arrival, Shroyer painted for the first time as part of a project required for elementary education certification. The exhilaration of this experience and the positive feedback that accompanied it encouraged her to pursue art classes in southern California and Berkeley, California, but it was not until a chance encounter that she began pursuit of art as a career.
Shroyer’s artistic path to Taos has included twenty years as a weaver of Navajo style woven pillows and rugs as well as ethnic baskets. Her textile work was juried into prestigious American Craft Council shows in Chicago and Columbus. It was a serendipitous move to Taos and her experience there as writer and editor for a small art publication that rekindled her love affair with fine art.
Exhibits have included shows in Lexington, KY; Reno, Nevada; Naples and the Tampa Bay area in FL; Dallas, TX; and Taos, NM. A meritorious award was given her work by Manhattan Arts International of New York. Colleagues and patrons describe her art as “full of energy,” “coming from a place deep within–-a place of her own vision,” with a style reminiscent of DeKooning and the Mexican artist Tamayo.
Shroyer also continues to write. Her essay entitled “Yarns of the Soul” published in abqARTS was awarded the Best Feature Award in the San Francisco Honorary Publications competition for newspapers with circulation 50,000 and under.