NVOS artist Charley de Limur lives and works in Calistoga, in the wine country of northern California, where he concentrates primarily on landscape painting, using oils and pastels.
Born in San Francisco, he was also raised for eight years in Paris, France, where his first-hand exposure to the Impressionists had a lasting influence on his own style.
He has exhibited in solo and group shows in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., as well as the Napa Valley Museum show Paradise Lost and Found, and Napa Valley Open Studios.
Charley currently has a multi-media piece on exhibit at the Napa Valley Museum in a juried show called A Date With The Devil, in which twenty artists were invited to create work inspired by Igor Stravinsky’s modernist musical piece, A Soldier’s Tale.
For many years he owned and operated a fine art silkscreen studio, both in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, collaborating with a number of other artists and exploring a variety of visual styles.
Composed in 1918 after the close of WWI, this work for actors, dancers and musicians explores the dilemma of a man who sells his soul to the Devil when he trades his gift of music and his violin for great riches. The art display was created in collaboration with two mid-August evenings of live performance at the museum of the Stravinsky piece by Music In The Vineyards.
Charley graduated from Oberlin College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, where he concentrated on art, theater, and communications. Currently his home and studio are in a forest at the top of Diamond Mountain above Calistoga, where he lives in a state of creative chaos with his wife and two kids, one in high school and one in college, their dachshund, and a 28 year old Amazon parrot named Miro.
You'll find Charley in his Diamond Mountain studio at Studio #47 on the Open Studios map, at 1771 Diamond Mountain Road, just south of Calistoga, California.
You can also find his work online at www.CharlesdeLimur.com.
