From 1976-1979 he ran the etching studio of Editions Alecto the leading original print publisher in the country at the time, where he worked with many well known contemporary artists. His own work was almost exclusively confined to monochro­matic, gothic and fantastic images until a first visit to India in 1979 made a radical change of direction towards more topographical subject matter. Charles made extensive working trips throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle and Far East and America. In 1992 he visited the painted caves of Paleolithic man in France. This was to be the catalyst for a new series of work based on primal, “animist” imagery which still continues to develop now.

His modern design of Britain’s most ancient symbol - the White Horse, is planned as a chalk cut on the Etchinghill escarpment above the Channel Tunnel entrance. He is married to Anna Keiller, the sculptor. They live in Lympne, Kent.

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