Rowen Matthews | Lightscape
Lightscape | 2024
102 x 122 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed verso
$ 5,000
ESCARPMENT
I feel it’s more important now than ever before to be painting the land because we are presently living in climate change and in this time of vulnerability it’s an honour to witness some of the majesty and fragility that surrounds us.
In this series of paintings I’ve focused urgent large slabs of paint at some of my favourite places around Blackheath; Twin Falls and Anvil Rock. Looking closely at the wild energy of rock outcrops, distant escarpments, and canyons of air.
Rowen Matthews Nov 2023
Rowen Matthews
Bio
Blue Mountains based painter Rowen Matthews has been practicing since 2001. He was awarded the Calleen Art Prize in 2009, the Blackheath Art Prize in 2010 and was granted an Australian Postgraduate Award in 2012 for his PhD studio practice study. He was Highly Commended in the 2011 Countryscapes Prize, the 2012 Central West Regional Artists Award and the 2013 New South Wales Parliament House Plein Air Painting Prize.
He has recently exhibited as a finalist in the Kedumba Drawing Award, the Rick Amor Drawing Prize and the Mosman Art Prize.
His work is held in private and public collections including Charles Sturt University, Cowra Regional Art Gallery and Launceston City Council.
