Women in Art - Raising the Bar
15 FEBRUARY 2022 - 08 MARCH 2022
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11. Caia Matheson
The Sensual World
The Sensual World
Oil and Dyes on Hand Stretched Canvas
74H x 65W x 3D cm
2014
Signed and dated on reverse of canvas. Description can be sent with Certificate of Authenticity.
The Sensual World
I paint with my hands and household sponges onto canvas laid on the floor. I love to mix paint mediums and play with the effects: this can be the most exciting part of the creative process. Painting this way transports me through a portal into other worlds. This world is tactile and sensual and nearing completion these lyrics came into my head “And how we’d wish to live in the sensual world : you don’t need words, just one kiss then another. Stepping out of the page into the sensual world.” (Kate Bush lyrics based on James Joyce’s Ulysses) It was a perfect fit.
This painting was created in my studio in Brighton.
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£3,800 - 4,500
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Notes
I explore the canvas with paint and sponges, dyes and brushes : looking past the obvious, discovering beauty in unfamiliar places. Immersed in the boundaries of the canvas I begin to create a world within worlds.
There is no notion of beginning or end: just the story in transition that gradually unfolds in time.
There are gates that open with light brush marks and delicacy: a revelation. Heavy laden sponges of paint open portals of darkness that construct patterns: a matrix. Texture shapes forms and the narrative begins….
I paint in layers like a palimpsest.
The first layer is the most superficial, literal interpretation : the final image. Hiding just beneath, the symbolic or allegorical second layer : look closely and you will see. Then comes the layer of the seeker, where comparative meaning can be drawn from : it’s a feeling. The final layer is the hidden layer, full of esoteric meaning : the connection. It is the essence of the work where I began : the seed that grew to the first layer.
The cycle is complete.
Education
-BTEC Foundation Diploma in Fine Art and 3D Design (Distinction)
Wood Street Campus Barnet London, UK
-A Level Art & History of Art
Lansdowne College Bark Place Kensington London, UK
-O Level Art History of Art and English Language
Ashwell House Study Centre Pembridge Square Notting Hill Gate London UK
-St Andrews School for Girls
Johannesburg South Africa
-International School of the Sacred Heart
Tokyo Japan
EXHIBITIONS
2021 | November FLUX Exhibition | Greenwich Peninsula | London
2019 | July Turning Tides Festival |Greenwich Peninsula | London
2019 | July Women in Art Exhibition | Elena Shchukina Gallery Mayfair | London
2019 | March FLUX Exhibition | The National Army Museum Chelsea | London
2018 | May/June Group Exhibition | Elena Shchukina Gallery Mayfair | London
2018 | April FLUX Exhibition | Chelsea College of Arts Chelsea | London
2017 | October Private Exhibition | Stefano Ricci Store Mayfair | London
2017 | July FLUX Exhibition | Chelsea College of Arts Chelsea | London
2017 | May/June Group Exhibition | Elena Shchukina Gallery Mayfair | London
2016 | November FLUX Exhibition | The Old Truman Brewery | London
2015 | December FLUX Exhibition | Royal College of Art Kensington | London
2015 | August Group Exhibition | Lacey Contemporary Gallery Holland Park | London
2015 | July Elements Exhibition | Gabriel Fine Art Gallery Notting Hill Gate | London
2015 | June Lungs Exhibition | Brighton
2015 | May Brighton Festival Artists Open Houses | Brighton
2015 | April Women’s Art Exhibition | Brush Gallery | Brighton
2015 | February BOAT Theatre Auction | Brighton
2014 | December Brighton Festival Artists Open Houses | Brighton
2014 | October ACHICA Promotion | Online
2014 | October The Other Art Fair | Truman Brewery | London
Twitter : @CaiaMatheson
Instagram : @caiamathesonart
