King Charles III is one of the UK’s most successful living artists, Here are 15 of his works
King Charles III is one of the UK's most successful living artists. Here are 15 of his works.
September 14, 2022
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Updated 2022/09/14 at 9:00 AM
In 1980, he and Hugh Maxwell Casson published a children's book, "The Old Man of Lochnagar," which is about an old, cave-dwelling man who meets a Scoticus, a bubble-blowing god of the sea.
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King Charles III has been painting for nearly 50 years after getting his start while at school in Scotland.
King Charles started painting in the 1970s after he was inspired by Robert Waddell, his art master at Gordonstoun School in Scotland. The school has a 200-acre woodland campus, and it is within walking distance of the beaches of the Moray Firth. He works exclusively in watercolor, and his paintings were first exhibited in Windsor Castle in 1977. They were displayed alongside works from Queen Victoria, herself an avid watercolorist, and the Duke of Edinburgh, a painter and designer, whose sketches helped create the stained-glass windows in the Private Chapel of Windsor Castle.
He has said he prefers watercolors because they are quicker to finish so he does not have to keep his security detail waiting too long, according to The Telegraph.
The king’s paintings have been displayed in multiple exhibitions and at charity events.
“Lochnagar from the Gelder Cottage,” pictured below, was displayed at the Royal Paintbox: Royal Artists Past and Present exhibition at Windsor Castle.
He showed many of his watercolors at a charity reception for International Nursing and Nurses Day.