Rich Immersive Landscapes Evoking Place, Memory and Connection
Your home is a retreat. Somewhere special that allows you to be the curator. I create paintings which lead you to your own piece of somewhere. My paintings invite you to slow down, to pause, to reflect. My desire, each time I pick up my brush, is to coax into being somewhere special that you can connect to.
I’m Clare Matthews, a mixed media artist living in beautiful New Zealand. My work is inspired by our natural environment…the light, the weather, the layers. I’m interested in exaggerating this beauty and drama through the imaginative use of colour, line and a variety of marks and shapes.
I love the constant dance with different media, adding, scraping back, scratching, flooding with paint until I feel the painting is suggesting something. This conversation continues until there is nothing left to add, at which point I invite you to pick up the thread.
Past Exhibitions
2022 New Zealand Art Show (Single Wall Artist) Wellington June 2022
2021 New Zealand Art Show (Single Wall Artist), Wellington June 2021
2020 Unlocked Art Exhibition – St Patrick’s College, Wellington – 6 November
2020 Dunedin Art Show, Live and Online – 19-22 November – live and online
2020 New Zealand Art Show, Online 1 May – 30 December 2020
2020 Auckland Art Show, Online 18-20 September 2020
2019 New Zealand Art Show (Single Wall Artist), Wellington June 2019
2018 New Zealand Art Show (Single Wall Artist), Wellington June 2018
2017 New Zealand Art Show (Single Wall Artist), Wellington June 2017
2017 ARTrove Exhibition, Wellington, September 2017
2016 New Zealand Art Show (Single Wall Artist), Wellington June 2016
2016 ARTrove Exhibition, Wellington, September 2016
2015 New Zealand Art Show (Single Wall Artist), Wellington June 2015
2014 New Zealand Art Show, Wellington, August 2014
2014 ARTrove Exhibition, Wellington, September 2014
2013 ARTrove Exhibition, Wellington, 5th-11th September
Award Winning Art
My work has been recognised with the following awards.
Creativity and Promise Scholarship Award, Friends of Pātaka Exhibition 2022
Open Award, Friends of Pātaka Exhibition 2018, including a one month residency at Pātaka in 2019
People’s Choice Award, Friends of Pātaka Exhibition 2016
People’s Choice Award, Artel Gallery One Square Meal Exhibition 2012
“It’s not what you look at that matters,
It’s what you see.”
