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Matt Collier Artist Portfolio

Contemporary art inspired by medical, anatomical, botanical and geometric drawing and painting. Matt Collier studied art in London and Glasgow.

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D R A W I N G S

Neoplasm Series (New-Formation)

A5 Drawing series

The Medical Fictions

Matt Collier Artist artwork painting and drawing

Paintings on wood

Matt Collier Artist mural artwork drawing, painting project Peckham, London

Paintings

MfA Glasgow

Older Sketchbooks A4

Matt Collier Artist mural artwork drawing, painting in Universal Records London

Murals in brief

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'Spontaneous Waveforms'. I have feelings involved

'Spontaneous Waveforms'. I have feelings involved here, in contrast, description in word form can be impressive yet you can feel how it works & doesn't work, my wordy description (as I attempt not to 'illustrate').

Attempt to describe this one, with my magical mushrooming flower doubling along precise controlling lines interweave with abstracting colour & energetic lines. A wave without gravity separates & follows the lines of hand as I push & pull my collage of elements. My sense of composition and structure is lost in various flows of the work or how working on this went.

These are all afterthoughts thoughts as I look up & down & across.

The drawing is composed of layered/collaged elements, dynamic combinations interplay between linear and organic forms. The wave structures, rendered in doubling and splitting motions. Lines of various thickness to add depth and movement. The pencil flower, mirrored and doubled, an organic element, a glitch in a way, in its symmetry and repetition. Ink is pure accident that composes & I then work from it's simple orchestration.

(#Pencil, #ink, #oilpastel 49.7x70cm).

#drawing #worldscollide #waveform #repetition #glitch #contemporaryart #flower #dibujo #kunstwerk #contemporarydrawing #anatomy #medical #scatter #botanical #beautifulscience #scienceandart #art

A closer glimpse of 'Spontaneous Waveforms' drawin

A closer glimpse of 'Spontaneous Waveforms' drawing. Odd composition comes from giving up on a drawing before battling into it. These drawings take far longer than I'm proud to admit (yet that's better than the it's opposite). I live with my works, we spend quality time together. #waveform #pencil #details #repetition #glitch #contemporaryart #flower #drawing #dibujo #contemporarydrawing
#anatomical #anatomy #medical #scatter
#botanical #beautifulscience #scienceandart
#ink #bodyabstract #art

Towards a painting from thumbnail sketches.#painti

Towards a painting from thumbnail sketches.#paintingprocess #contemporarydrawing #artistic #artinspiration #thumbnailsketch

An oldly 'Sphincter & spectrum' plus wall of drawi

An oldly 'Sphincter & spectrum' plus wall of drawings at the time. A slightly unresolved drawing but you can see how it fits in with the last few drawings with oil pastel here. (55x51cm) Ink, watercolour, oil pastel on paper.
#anatomical #drawing #sphincter #flow #thinkingoutloud #contemporarydrawing #oilpastel #spectrum #flower #artandscience #artforsale #drawingnow #contemporaryart #medicalart #mistakemaking

Anomaly Beings: 'The Figures'. Intertwined entitie

Anomaly Beings: 'The Figures'. Intertwined entities, lifeform variations, growth forms in symbiotic conversations. A non-static figure, thing, entity, organ or plant. A type of becoming? Combining elements of various forms to create hybrid creatures and compositions. A continuous transformation and movement of forms. Islands or cloud forms interchanging physical properties or interchanges?
(42x29.7cm) Oil pastel, pencil, ink on paper.

#drawing #line #symbiosis #growth #art #anatomical #flow #communication #veins #contemporarydrawing #oilpastel #botanical #line #artgallery #artandscience #artforsale #artecontemporanea #drawingoftheday #dibujodeldia #ink #drawingnow #contemporaryart #cloud

Anomaly Beings: 'In Communication'. Intertwined en

Anomaly Beings: 'In Communication'. Intertwined entities, lifeform variations, growth forms in symbiotic conversations. A non-static figure, thing, entity, organ or plant. A type of becoming? Combining elements of various forms to create hybrid creatures and compositions. A continuous transformation and movement of forms. Islands or cloud forms interchanging physical properties or interchanges?
(42x29.7cm) Oil pastel, pencil, ink on paper.

#drawing #line #symbiosis #growth #art #anatomical #flow #contemporarydrawing #oilpastel #botanical #line #artgallery #artandscience #artforsale #artecontemporanea #drawingoftheday #dibujodeldia #ink #drawingnow #contemporaryart #mistakemaking #notation #creative

'In Commune'. Grow & only grow don't decay. We're

'In Commune'. Grow & only grow don't decay. We're anomaly. Everyone here is swirling & no-one is below, neither above. Planting is acceptable; roots - need - me.
Oil pastel, pencil, ink on paper (42x29.7cm).
#drawing #line #symbiosis #anomalies #artandscience #growth #art #flow #contemporarydrawing #oilpastel #artgallery #drawingnow #contemporaryart #mistakemaking

Anomaly Beings: 'Island Characters'. Pencil, ink,

Anomaly Beings: 'Island Characters'.
Pencil, ink, oil pastel on paper (42x29.7cm)
capturing the little idiosyncrasies and variations within the body and botanical growth forms. Symbiotic conversations. A non-static figure, thing, entity, organ or plant. A possible process of becoming? Combining elements of various forms to create hybrid creatures and compositions. A continuous transformation and movement of forms. Islands or cloud forms interchanging physical properties or intercahnges?
#drawing #line #symbiosis #growth #art #anatomical #flow #contemporarydrawing #oilpastel #botanical #artgallery #artandscience #artforsale #ink #drawingnow #contemporaryart #medicalart #mistakemaking #notation #creative

A practice session on a friends wall travelling th

A practice session on a friends wall travelling through Santa Fe New Mexico 2016. Acrylic and two brushes.

'Emerging Plant (Oil Sketch)' on board, this livel

'Emerging Plant (Oil Sketch)' on board, this lively little plant worked on in 2014 & 2023. (14.4x14.8cm)
#botanicalart #botany #oilpainting #oilonboard #oilsketch #plant #flowerart #contemporaryart #artinsitu #varnishingpaintings

Study in oil 'Trees Central Veins (trees pump upwa

Study in oil 'Trees Central Veins (trees pump upwards)' (21x15cm) #wrongwayup #oilonboard #tree #anatomical #flow #botanicalart #flowerart #artgallery #artandscience #artecontemporanea #artgallerylondon #contemporaryart #medicalart #botany #artexhibition #oldybutgoody #nature #oilpainting

Geranium on wood oil study. To approach this as I

Geranium on wood oil study. To approach this as I would a drawing. Marks, lines, movement towards erasing, wiping away to find our organic plant friend emerging. (20x30cm)
#botanicalart #geranium #artecontemporanea #artgallerylondon #paintingnow #contemporaryart #botany #oilpainting #artforsale

Vertical Cloud window, oil on wood. 'the only true

Vertical Cloud window, oil on wood. 'the only true deities', Socrates (may have) said. The clouds think about transcendence the clouds, the clouds think about their fuzziness coming together to disapate once again, the clouds think about revenge, the clouds think about the passing of time and the passing of others through them, the clouds think about epic grandeur, they clouds think about the next step, the clouds think about what was the clouds are in the presence of hard heavy solid reality.
(15x57cm) Seemingly unlike my drawings, yet to me conceptually add the metaphysical feeling of my play with the body, plant, line & metamorphosis. These were to practice & introduce to myself the ideas..
#oilpainting #clouds #metaphysical #contemporarypainting #artpractice #oilonboard #art #nubes socrates #cloudpainting

Brief run through of an oil painting on wood. Min

Brief run through of an oil painting on wood.
Minimal colour, rags, fan brushes & extremely slow drying poppy oil used so to move the paint around for a few days.
I see myself making 'my' drawings, & this being a fantastic practice in line with passing metaphysical thoughts.

Painted slowly, peacefully, twas like watching the clouds pass.
#clouds #cloudpainting #oilpainting #grandeur #art

Passing Cloud Oval oil painting (30×40.4cm) on can

Passing Cloud Oval oil painting (30x40.4cm) on canvas. Strangely enough, these cloud paintings felt as calming to paint as I think they look.
Process reel attempt soon will show you the enjoyable pushing & pulling of the oils to result here in something more ephemeral than the original composition had planned. #clouds #ovaloilpaintings #oilpainting #art #contemporarypainting #artandscience #atmosphere #sky #artforsale #easal #cloudpainting

'Atmosphere' oval cloud oil painting (30×40.4cm ov

'Atmosphere' oval cloud oil painting (30x40.4cm oval) on canvas. Process vid/gif will show you the enjoyable pushing & pulling of the oils to result here in something more ephemeral than the original composition had planned. #clouds #ovaloilpaintings #cloudpainting #oilpainting #art #contemporarypainting #artandscience #atmosphere #sky #artforsale

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The making of oil painting on board myself recentl

The making of oil painting on board myself recently. 'The Storm', 'La Tormenta Retinal'. 'Vitreous Haemorrhage' All Hellish; Blood reds seen in this haemorrhage, in one a haze of blood pours out into the vitreous (central transparent fluid in all of us mammals) & so if this is taking place, then ultimately the micro-vascular system throughout the body is having to deal with hellish severities. Unusual image in my recent works, I did these 3 oils of diabetic retinopathy ('pathology of the retina') recently. *Note that these are extremes of diabetes & not happening in general diabetics, they're dramatic when observed, often effects of visual acuaty can be restored.
Our bodies do not torlorate or like raised blood glucose levels in general- diabetic or not, aging in many respects is accelerated with all levels hyperglycaemia. Dementia is linked, all the way down to having nice skin!

Each: Oil on board (30.5 x 25.4cm) for sale.

#oilpainting #retina #hell #retinopathy #ram #anatomical #ophthalmology #optometry #UWF #retinalworldcongress #art #artandscience #contemporarypainting #haemorhage #vitrioushaemorrhage #painting #medicalart #artforsale #medicalillustration #oilonboard #diabeticretinopathy

'The Storm'. Hell. Blood reds seen in diabetic in

'The Storm'. Hell. Blood reds seen in diabetic in this haemorrhage pouring out into the vitreous (central transparent fluid in all of us mammals) & as if this is taking place, then ultimately the micro-vascular system throughout the body is having to deal with hellish severities. Unusual image in my recent works, I did these 3 oils of diabetic retinopathy ('pathology of the retina') recently. *Note that these are extremes of diabetes & not happening in general diabetics, they're dramatic when observed, often effects of visual acuaty can be restored.
Our bodies do not torlorate or like raised blood glucose levels in general- diabetic or not, aging in many respects is accelerated with all levels hyperglycaemia. Dementia is linked, all the way down to having nice skin!

Oil on board (30.5 x 25.4cm)

#oilpainting #retina #hell #retinopathy #ram #ophthalmology #optometry #UWF #retinalworldcongress #art #artandscience #contemporarypainting #haemorhage #vitrioushaemorrhage #painting #medicalart #medicalillustration

'Hell'. Haemorrhaging oil painting R3 diabetic ret

'Hell'. Haemorrhaging oil painting R3 diabetic retinopathy - fundas photo of the Retina, new vessel growth resulting in pre-vitreous haemorrhages & fibrosis. I wanted to try 3 oils of diabetic retinopathy ('pathology of the retina') as I have avoided them for quite some years.
*Note that these are extremes of diabetes & not happening in general diabetics, they're dramatic when observed, often many affects of visual acuaty can be restored.
Our bodies do not torlorate raised blood glucose levels in general- diabetic or not, aging in many respects is accelerated with all levels hyperglycaemia. Dementia is linked, all the way down to having nice skin!

Oil on wood (30.5 x 24.4cm).

#oilpainting #retina #hell #retinopathy #ram #ophthalmology #UWF #newvessels #neovascularization #R3 #Retinalworldcongress #art #AMD #fibrosis #contemporarypainting #haemorhage #vitrioushaemorrhage #painting #medicalart #Turner #medicalillustration #NHS #diabeticretinopathy #diabeticeyescreening #optometry #diabeticeyescreening #guysandstthomashospital

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