Like the scientist he once dreamed of becoming, Charles Zuill, one of Bermuda’s foremost and original artists, has spent a lifetime observing, exploring and experimenting with art. Regarded as one of the ‘founding fathers’ of modernist painting in Bermuda, Dr. Zuill trained at the Atlantic Union College in Massachusetts, the Byam Shaw School of Art in London, UK and later studied at Rochester Institute of Technology and New York University. While he was an art professor at Bermuda College in the 1980s he led a movement away from the landscape tradition with his abstract and conceptual works.

His 20-year study of stepped gradient resulted in the often austere but technically intricate Gray Scale works, which involved up to 256 carefully mixed gradients of black and white paint and took up to six months each to complete. “It takes a kind of obsessive, compulsive character like me to even think to do something like this”, Zuill has written.  “The gray scale was a tool that allowed me to experience within myself various aspects of seeing. It was a study about seeing.”

	Artist's statement "I make art because it is for me a necessary tool for learning and the exploration of natural forces plays a large part in my art production."
	Recent highlights 2006 - The Bermuda Arts Council Lifetime Achievement Award 2006, 2004, 2002 – Bacardi Limited Biennial, Bermuda National Gallery 2006 - Charles Zuill Retrospective: The Science of Art, Bermuda National Gallery 2003 - Box Factory for the Arts, St Joseph, Michigan 2002 - Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan