Charina Forge (now Oeser) studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in the early 1960s. Charina and her husband Francis Oeser later spent time as part of the artistic community in Sydney, and were known to visit the popular artists' hub that was modernist painter Carl Plate's property in Woronora, in the city's outer southern basin. By the end of the 1960s Oeser had relocated to London. She maintained her creative practice, and in 2015 had an exhibition of her work, 50 Years Painting, at Lauderdale House in Highgate. The survey exhibition was described as 'Work collected from a lifetime of painting. Work from Australia, Greece, Britain and her travels, in oils and watercolours.' Also a ceramic artist, in the mid-1980s Oeser established Dartmouth Park Pottery, an open studio in Highgate that she ran for more than 30 years until its closure in 2018.
