OIL PAINTINGS

Painter, Matthew Schofield is a Toronto based Canadian born artist who has been exhibiting his artwork in galleries and museums and artist run centers nationally and internationally. Matthew’s current paintings explores snapshots painted with unsentimental observation. he is interested in observing the idiosyncratic nature of the photographer and their subjects. The overarching theme of his work has been painting snapshots and overlooked moments while attempting to order the outcome of random sequences. Matthew creates small paintings by digging and sorting through boxes and piles of hundreds of inherited slides and photos. It is part of an on-going exploration of collecting and hording of the incidental random moments in photographs. The resulting paintings are usually one to one scale recreations of the original photographs installed in collage form; giving order and/or disorder to the cumulative imagery.