Meet Chuck Delpapa
After moving back to Cleveland in 2011, Chuck returned to painting and began documenting the city around him. What started as a personal way to record his surroundings has grown into possibly the largest collection of original watercolor paintings featuring Cleveland landmarks, Ohio City scenes, and meaningful places beyond the city.
Chuck’s background in fine arts, interior design, home furnishings, trend research, and product development gives his work a strong sense of composition, detail, and atmosphere.
Before returning to painting full-time, he spent his career in the world of home fashion and design, including roles as Director of Home Fashion Merchandising for two major department store corporations.
Chuck was born in Colorado where he spent the first half of his life. In 1982, he accepted a job with Higbee’s Department Store in Cleveland, and moved to Ohio along with his wife, Bea, and two teenage sons.
Through the next 30 years, the kids grew up, his job changed, and they moved a few times, before settling for 17 years on 10 acres in rural Columbiana County in Ohio.
When he and Bea retired and downsized in 2011, they moved from their very rural life back to Cleveland. From the beginning, Chuck embraced his new life in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, and within a few months had picked up his long-neglected paint brush and began to record his surroundings.
Although Chuck’s undergraduate and graduate work was in fine arts, it was not until his move back to Cleveland in 2011, that he started to paint again. He has chronicled his treks through his neighborhood and his journeys well beyond. There may not be another collection of Cleveland’s iconic buildings and scenes as large as the one that Chuck has amassed. And the collection continues to grow. His ability to capture the details of buildings and landscapes is exceptional, and his work has been extremely popular with his friends and neighbors.
Now, with the advent of the Tin Shop Website, he can share it with a much larger audience.
Commission a Custom Watercolor
Chuck Delpapa accepts commissions for original watercolor paintings of homes, family properties, gardens, landscapes, and meaningful places. Many clients commission paintings as personal keepsakes, thoughtful gifts, or pieces to pass down.
To ask about a custom watercolor, contact the gallery directly and share a few details about the subject you have in mind.
