I am from a small town in Newfoundland, Canada. I grew up near the ocean, which is the inspiration for most of my artwork. I view the ocean, and nature in general, as beautiful, and untamed, having a personality of its own. The ocean can be calm and serene at times, and wild and untamed at others. It has also been merciless, claiming many lives. My artwork often invokes some of this moodiness and instability.
My drawings and paintings often have wild sweeping lines, undulating curves, spiraling forms, along with surreal looking landmasses. I use these various styles in combination to show movement and unruleliness. Sometimes they are complex and dizzying. Many times my artworks are "escapes" from the real world, hense bordering on surreal. This is because I use the real world as a basis and distort it in such a way that seems otherworldly.
In spite of the representational beginnings of my artworks, the underlying meaning is psychological in context, either blatant or implied. My art has been a type of "release" for emotions... a way of "hiding" them on the canvas without expressing them outwardly... and admittedly therapeutic.
Some of my influences through the years are the Group of Seven and Tom Thompson, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, and Salvador Dali. I also draw my inspiration from everyone and everything around me. It is the people closest to me that are my greatest influences.
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03/17/12
1:19 am Muklis Purwanto
Hello Graham, allready vote you, nice to meet you here and have a nice day
02/25/12
2:12 am Aizaa Khan
Very Artistic Blogs. Voted and followed you.
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Aizaa
02/21/12
11:38 am BloggerLatein
Welcome Graham Matthews Art
02/03/12
6:14 am ABHINAV
a very very authentic blog!! keep blogging.
02/02/12
9:12 pm Miss Lego
Wow, you have an amazing talent. Congratulations on being featured blogger today.
6:27 pm Andre
Congrats on being featured Graham!
Voted for you
8:14 am Rebecca Nelson
Congratulations on being a featured Blogger of the day, on the front page! Have a great time here :-)
8:11 am Kitty
Hello Graham ,
Congrats! for being featured blogger...! :)
7:54 am Lynda Looney
Great to see you on the front page of Bloggers. Congrats.
7:51 am Lisa Stillwell
Congratulation for best blogger of the day.
01/29/12
3:04 am Navin Kunwar
Thanks for the add :)
12:08 am Chadya Smith
Thanks for the friendship, have a nice day, happy blogging
01/24/12
6:12 pm Sonali
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01/21/12
9:32 pm Tetaron
appy blogging... :)
2:42 pm MattTheRose
Hey fellow artist. ;) let's swap votes and reads.
12:38 am Ryan Smith
Thank you SO much for your friendship!
01/20/12
1:12 pm Purple Chronicle
voted and followed.. i too love to paint but only as a hobby..your blogs are inspiring:)
1:18 pm Graham Matthews Art
Thank you so much! I voted & followed you too!!
01/12/12
2:39 am Rooha Tariq
Hey, nice blog !
Thanks for friendship !
01/11/12
5:14 am Auni Nabillah
happy blogging,
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