“It amounts to an infinite painting.” Such were the words chosen by Charles Belle to express the feeling of the large-scale landscape he has been painting for the past several months - remaining present in the world, serene and sound.

We could use these very same words to characterize his oeuvre overall, which is in perpetual movement, for nothing is ever really arrested or finished. Each painting can be questioned or reconsidered at any moment, occasionally several years after it was first begun.
Charles Belle draws nourishment from vaster sources than merely intention and imagination. His painting is intuitive, it is organically born. His colors are deep and complex, and he never uses black.

Charles Belle’s oeuvre occupies this unstable equilibrium. The impermanence of paintings, of brushstrokes, of respirations.
The expression of the shadow’s silence.