Painter who gained his fine art diploma at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, 1972, his art teaching certificate at Brighton Polytechnic, 1974. He was half French, from the Geoffroy-Dechaume family of painters and sculptors, and was also related to the Bloomsbury circle literary critic Sir Desmond MacCarthy. Charles MacCarthy held his first one-man show at Borlase Gallery, Blewbury, in 1978 and showed widely after that, including the RA Summer Exhibition. He received a major bursary from Southern Arts in 1983. Initially comparable to Bonnard in his handling of paint and use of colour, his work evolved to a point where, by the time of his solo show at Elgin, 2000, he had begun producing his first purely abstract paintings, exploring the relationship between areas of colour, tone and form.