Charles Willmott was born in 1943 in the medieval market town of Stratford-Upon-Avon - Shakespeare Country! The son of Hague Willmott, himself a metal crafter and artist, the apple didn’t fall far from the creative tree.
Painting and creating since the early 1960s, in the 1980s he acquired a passion for the Far East and every facet of their culture. In 1991, his first one-man show was staged at the prestigious Mall Galleries in London and was rather unique, in that it featured Japan’s national sport, Sumo!
Like his contemporary also famous in the world of art and dance, Robert Heindel, Charles was highly collected in Japan and also had many links to the same dance companies!
Charles sadly passed away in 2023 after an illustrious career in the figurative & dance art world, our thoughts are with his family and friends.