Baron Charles W Lush, born in Carlisle, UK the son of a doctor in 1958, he was educated at Bramcote in Scarborough and at Sherborne in Dorset. He then studied French and Music in Lausanne, the latter as a private pupil of Hungarian composer Andras Kovach, himself a former pupil of Kodaly and friend of Sibelius. Back in Carlisle, he studied photography and graphic design while further developing my musical interests with Andrew Sievewright at the cathedral. In 1977, he began his first degree course at the London College of Music, graduating in 1980 with a Fellowship in composition and Licentiate Teaching Diploma in double bass playing. His composition had been greatly encouraged by the late Sir Lennox Berkeley.



In the autumn of 1980, He took up his first teaching post at Stoke Brunswick preparatory school before moving to Cheam School, Newbury, to teach French. During the next nine years at Cheam, he also served as private tutor to the Earl of Shelburne’s younger son at Bowood, Calne, and advanced his interests in photography and music. In 1987, he held a photographic exhibition at Cheam and obtained a Licentiate Diploma from the Royal Photographic Society. The following year, he founded and conducted the Newbury Chamber Consort with the moral support of Christopher Finzi, brother-in-law of the late outstanding cellist Jacqueline du Pre.

In 1990, he moved to Scotland to teach French at Croftinloan School, Pitlochry, where he also acted as Housemaster to the senior boys. This was followed by teaching a number of activities at Kilgraston, Ardvreck, Butterstone and the New School, Butterstone, an establishment for children with special needs. he also taught English as a foreign language to French students at Ardvreck and, in 1992, set a new modern-day record for the Upper Oykel (river in Scotland) with thirty-five salmon and four sea trout to his own rod for the week.

Between 1995 and 1998, he worked as a department manager and buyer at McEwens of Perth where he also edited the staff magazine. The following two years he spent researching, writing and self-publishing a number of works with a successful book-signing at James Thin’s in Perth. While researching his family history, he also stumbled upon the fascinating ‘Locock legend’ which he investigated as part of a biography on Queen Victoria’s favourite physician and obstetrician Sir Charles Locock, Bt. This research sparked a hive of media activity in 2004 when Baron charlie Lush was interviewed by the BBC, Endemol UK and Sky News and, more recently, for a Radio 4 Document programme.

In 2000, Baron Charles W Lush matriculated for a second time at St Andrews University where he served as Hon Chairman of the Clay Pigeon Club and Secretary to the Dashwood Historians’ Club. Charlie obtained his colours for clay pigeon shooting, played double bass with the Chamber Orchestra, sang with the Renaissance Group and led an art historians’ expedition to Florence. He also held the first solo student art exhibition at the Preservation Trust Museum in 2003 and graduated with a Joint Hons degree in Art History and Modern History in 2004. Since then, he has completed a biography of Edwardian artist John Brakewell Baldwin, has exhibited at the Glasgow School of Art with one of his paintings shown on Channel 5 and, in addition to exhibiting regularly with the Perth Art Association, he was invited to show some of his artwork at the Kilbryde Castle 2006 Spring Exhibition. Besides painting and writing, he continues to work as a field sports instructor at Gleneagles and Dunkeld House and currently holds a Certificate of Competence in the coaching of archery from the Scottish Archery Centre.

Encouraged by a fellow Art History student at St Andrews University, Charlie Lush took up the brush in 2002. Since then, he has completed almost three hundred oil paintings, has held two solo exhibitions at St Andrews and Bankfoot, has exhibited with the Perthshire Art Association and at Kilbryde Castle and, having been selected as one of a hundred out of several thousand applicants living in Scotland for Channel 5’s Big Art Challenge in 2004, was one of only a handful of artists to be interviewed for television about his large-scale political satire 'The Iraq War at Home'. With experience in both graphic design and photography, Charlie pays particular attention to good compositional structure but without sacrificing his desire for self-expression.
Inspired by the work of Edward Munch, the English Impressionists and Scottish Colourists, his larger canvases typically contain elements of passion and solitude, reflective observation and vibrant colour while his smaller works convey a feeling of uncluttered spontaneity.

He paints what he likes when he likes without being bound either by convention or the urge to defy it. Consequently, his range of subject matter and execution is both as vital and diverse as every experience derived from his art. He prefers to work in oils at home in the company of his two dogs and BBC Radio 3. He hates the sight of butch women driving ‘Chelsea tractors’ while calling their therapists on mobile phones.

A selection of his art can be viewed at the official Baron Charlie Lush website: www.lushinspirations.com .