Happy Scrubs

"Created spontaneously at my studio in Tottenham, North London, just before the start of the pandemic. I like the contrast between the precise, symmetrical composition and the messy spray painted textures."

Matt's art career started in graffiti, and although he now paints on canvas more often than concrete, street art continues to influence his work to this day.

His paintings are always partly, if not entirely, unplanned.  He creates spontaneous landscapes of pattern and form, masking one part while creating another; not knowing how the whole will appear until the mask is peeled away. 

“I sometimes think of my work as a sequence of experiments or iterations: each painting taking elements from the previous one. Although my work is completely abstract, I’m often thinking about letter forms as I paint, and parts of letters can be found scattered through the work, echoes from my time as a graff writer.”

Matt asserts that it is for the viewer to decide what his landscapes mean, and he is interested to learn what springs into people’s minds when they look at the work - one man’s jungle canopy is another’s cluster of open parasols. He often asks other people to name the finished pieces. 

www.mattdosa.com

@matt.dosa