C.C. (Charles) Long is a self-taught painter, who has painted for 25 years and been in over 50 one man and group shows worldwide. His mercurial work begins with the creating of an abstract background using mixed media, collage and found accoutrement creating a chaos, from this chaos he works outward slowly drawing out an image until it is fully expressed. He has worked with images ranging from Stonehenge, fish, seahorses, cups, butterflies, still life’s and angels. He was described in Time Out magazine in London as “cunningly expressive”. He has had a home in Pawling for fifteen years.

C.C. also has professionally written for 30 years writing copy, plays, short stories and screenplays. He has published in a myriad of literary reviews, various magazines, been produced off-off Broadway and had a collection of short stories published, Puget Sound: 15 stories by Pleasure Boat Studios. He currently writes columns for two art magazines, Our Man In Manhattan, for Flux magazine and NYC Art Scene for Art Exit. He also is a feature writer for artnouveaumagazine.com and whitehotmagazine.com.