Artist's Statement

Charles Norris is a print maker, photographer, architect and waterfront planner who lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Popham Beach, Maine. His interests in photography and watercolor painting began in design school, and interpret the built and natural environments of his work and travels. More recently, he has created woodblock prints that are inspired by his photographic compositions, and often focus on waterfront and marine subjects. His woodcuts have been exhibited in juried shows at the Boston Printmakers Bienniel, Concord Art, the Danforth Museum, and the Maud Morgan Arts Center in Cambridge.  He has also had a solo show recently the Gladstone Gallery in Manchester, MA, and presented a slide lecture and workshop on his marine woodcuts at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath. He prints at Abrazos Studio, Miller Street, in Somerville.