Subsequently, at the age of 24, he studied in Paris under the cubist painter André Lhote.

After his studies, in 1958, Lutyens joined the "Fabyc" ("Families by Choice"[4]) community, a kibbutz-style group of people living in London, with his studio in Fulham.

[1] He worked on a large 800 square-foot mosaic mural, Angels of the Heavenly Host,[5] during 1963–68, at the newly consecrated St Paul's Church, Bow.

[9] The mosaic used tesserae consisting of 700 different colours sourced by Lutyens from the island of Murano, near Venice and known for its glass-making.

In 2024, a retrospective exhibition of Lutyens' oil paintings in the context of his work as an art therapist, A World Apart: The Work of Charles Lutyens, was held at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind[13] in Beckenham, southeast London.