Life Jacket Painting rough abstraction and highly rendered

rough abstraction and highly rendered forms

each work contains an element of the supernaturally surreal

geometric forms

these discarded remnants tell a story about what we carry around with us and what we have left- the absences

His compositions feature single and multiple figures set against stark

Life Jacket Painting rough abstraction and highly renderedDetails About Artist Bio Shipping 8 x 10 inches 2014 Oil on Vintage Book A great deal of my creative energy is focused on developing a visual language that uses elements of both realism and abstraction to describe a subject. Our Ghosts Are Hungry, How About You? is a series of narrative paintings on childhood. Visually, these images explore the dissonance that arises when realism is paired with the abbreviation and exaggeration of form. Matthew