Biography of Baron Charlie Lush
Versatile and talented, Baron Charlie Lush has achieved success in a variety of artistic and sporting fields. From exhibiting in New York to participating in the ITV show 'Ladette to Lady', from discussing royal illegitimacies on Radio 4 to conducting his own chamber orchestra and from establishing a new fishing record in Sutherland to winning the club captaincy of Scotland's largest open longbow-only club, these are just some of the features that characterise the 'Red Baron's' interesting and frutiful life.
Born into a long-established judicial and medical family in 1958, Baron Lush was educated at Bramcote and Sherborne before studying French in Lausanne and music in London. After taking up a teaching post at Stoke Brunswick, he then moved to Cheam where he taught French, ran a photographic business and founded the Newbury Chamber Consort with the moral support of Christopher Finzi. In 1990, he moved to Scotland to teach and serve as Housemaster at Croftinloan but, when the school fell on hard times, he was obliged to spread his wings. Besides teaching part-time at other local schools, he also ran a fly-tying and woodturning business before managing two departments at McEwens of Perth. Keen to return to the artistic sector, he then wrote a number of books, some of which revived his historical interests and led him back to uiniversity where, in 2004, he graduated at St Andrews with a Joint Hons in Modern History and Art History. It was the latter which prompted him to take up the brush and it was not long before he found himself holding his first solo exhibiton. This was then followed by invitations to group exhibitions and to represnt Scotland in Channel 5's 'Big Art Challenge' with his political satire 'The Iraq War at Home'. Since then, he has exhibited throughout Scotland and also in London and New York. He continues to paint and write when not instructing field sports at Dunkeld House and Gleneagles while remaining committed to promoting the practice of shooting in the longbow.
The thrust of this site, however, concerns his painting and he has selected works from four of his major series as well as some others which he hopes you will enjoy. Highly praised in New York for his use of colour, good composition and stylistic representations of women, the Baron also uses a great deal of neo-Renaissance symbolism to engage his viewers. 'A worthy painting', he declares, 'must always have something worthwhile to say. How that is interpreted by the viewers is entirely up to them and, believe me, the Ladettes came up with some interesting ideas during our art appreciation seminar! In fact, so engaged were my unlikely students that the film crew shot some of their best footage that evening and, certainly for me, that occasion remains one of my most memorable experiences with RDF'.
We all hope that you too will enjoy 'the Lush experience'.
Baron Lush at New York's Agora Gallery where he exhibited a selection of his paintings in 2007.
