Charlotte Mayer

b.1929

Charlotte Mayer’s family came from Prague, moving over to England in 1939. She studied at Goldsmith’s College at the young age of 16, and then went onto the Royal College of Art, where she was taught by Frank Dobson.

Her early sculpture was primarily figurative and carved from stone. After a visit to New York in 1967, Mayer experimented with welded steel having been inspired by the scale and architecture of the buildings.

During the 1970s Mayer developed an interest in the natural world thanks to holidays taken with her family on Dartmoor. Her work developed into beautiful poised, serene forms inspired by pods, leaves, shells and ammonites, with movement becoming a significant characteristic of her work. As a result when placed outside, Mayer’s sculptures, with their simple curves and subtle plays of light, sit in perfect harmony with their natural surroundings.

Mayer’s sculptures also work well in an architectural setting and she has been commissioned to create work for a number of commercial institutions including Banque Paribas, London. Mayer is represented in other corporate and institutional collections, and private collections in Europe, Japan and the USA. She also has a large bronze sculpture Pharus at the Cass Sculpture Foundation at Goodwood, West Sussex.