Peter Matthews - Hanan Pacha

Peter Matthews

Hanan Pacha, 2021-2022

Oil, oil stick, acrylic, earth matter and stones on canvases from the Pacific coast of Peru and the Atlantic coast of Cornwall

132 x 88 cm (unframed size)

About the artist

Peter Matthews is an English artist who spent his youth wandering across the fields  and beside the River Trent in Derbyshire and Leicestershire. He graduated with an MA in fine art from Nottingham Trent University in 2003. His practice to  experience the sublime and to coexist in a solitary symbiosis with nature has seen  him venture long distances, often aimlessly and just following an innate calling, to remote places along the coasts of our world such as Peru, Chile, Brazil, México,  Japan, California and Taiwan. When in England, he works in a wild place along the  Atlantic coast of Cornwall where he has been developing a hermetic way of working  along the rocky shore, semi-lost and semi-found somewhere between the intertidal  reaches of land and water.

His large-scale paintings, which often double up as shelters against the elements and  record his lived experiences over those weeks of personal reverie and repose with  nature and the landscape have been exhibited internationally at a diverse range of  galleries and museums. Matthews’ works have been shown at the North Carolina  Museum of Contemporary Art, the Drawing Center, New York, the National Maritime  Museum in London, the Saatchi Gallery, London, the Museo Nazionale della  Montagna, Torino, Italy and Drawing Room, London amongst others. Matthews  exhibited at the 2018 and 2020 John Moores Painting Prize held at the Walker Art  Gallery in Liverpool. He has been the recipient of three Arts Council of England  grants, is a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellow and in 2020 he was awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York. He was awarded the Hugh Casson Drawing Prize from the Royal Academy of Arts.