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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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Murals: www.themuralofmurals.com / DRAWING / EXHIBITION / PAINTING

'The Diagonal Curve'. Ink, oil pastel on paper. (5

'The Diagonal Curve'. Ink, oil pastel on paper. (54x70cm)
'The Diagonal Curve' follows my fantastic ability at learning things to come away getting it wrong or only half right. It seems many misunderstandings are rife in my drawings. We can all sound clever until put to the test!

I'm not sure a diagonal curve exists? The diagonal line was the plan in which the body had to follow (as if we can make our bodies follow instructions so grandiose and strict, but we keep trying).

The plant/flower here is the geranium, my go-to plant to draw, a real survivor in and outdoors, its medicinal but I also have personal reasons for this kinship. This is one of the first larger drawings I brought in oil pastel to drag across the paper, in its movement outwards, going over its threshold of the line, as organic growth does.

#contemporarydrawing #oilpastel #artandscience #botanicaldrawing #geraniumdrawing #metamorphosisart #organicforms
#paperandpastel #artiststudio
#modernbotanicalart

How not to paint? Oil on glass. No order to the co

How not to paint?
Oil on glass. No order to the colours — let it paint itself?
Somewhere between accident and intent, a kind of bodily dialogue, grows across the surface.
Part of my ongoing exploration into creating entities — metamorphosis through the physical gesture of brushstrokes.

#oilpainting #artprocess #studioart #metamorphosis #contemporaryart #artistvideo #thebody #siamesedream

On paper 'Seasons of Strong Wind and Sand, photosy $On paper 'Seasons of Strong Wind and Sand, photosynthesis refraction spectrum.' (pen, pencil, pastel, ink, watercolour on paper) 2016 Notes on the back of the drawing [where was I when I drew & wrote this?]: Seasons of strong wind and sand The refraction equation n = c/v (reflected her bent narcissism) Photosynthesis (betrayed his refraction) Microbes flattened (the depth of your qualities, of my twists, my trunk, my neck, my branches, my love) Leaves prepare me for another season Seasons of strong wind and sand. λ2: You say arbitrary I say intuition; Before he died he saw multiple rainbows through dark clouds. #drawing #flow #photosynthesis #contemporarydrawing #refraction #oilpastel #inkdrawing #artandscience #metamorphosis$

'Topsy-Turvy'. Pen, ink, watercolour on paper (51. $'Topsy-Turvy'. Pen, ink, watercolour on paper (51.5x69cm). Medicinal flowers: Mexican marigold, cinnamon. Rainbows and refraction. Moon phases. Polygons. Magic and movement. An older drawing from 2016, post travel through the Americas. #medicinalplants #drawing #anatomical #contemporaryart #flower #flow #artandscience #rainbow #refraction$

'Spontaneous Scatter' (on easel). Complexity isn't

'Spontaneous Scatter' (on easel). Complexity isn't lazy, yet it can exist in flow, calm, in a brutal meditation. When will we relax on our oversimplifications? When complexity does actually exist. Proposals of all the potentialities of growth & form to see the positive potential within the conceptually horrific?
"I have no right using a scatter graph or any diagram" the surgeon said. And thought to himself: Yet I FEEL like I do understand something correct in the informational is what I'm beholding in front of my very eyes.

What if like death, the unknown growth turns out to be far more beautiful than anyone had ever imagined? Thinking positively about the potential of the unknowns, this body responds. Oh but doesn't it! Peace in the chaos of knowing that you'll never know, & still being intertwined with it, physically, emotionally geometrically!

Mistake making that eventually generate the biggest discoveries. Medical & botanical illustration untangle in art, as a picture flows uninhibited as energy through the flat pictorial plane with accident & intension.
This is biographical.

Pencil, ink, oil pastel on paper (56x66cm)

#scientificintuition #uncertainty #scatterdiagram #repetitionvsduplication #metamorphosis #being
#drawing #anatomical #flow #neoplasm #contemporarydrawing #botanicalart #flowerart #line #artandscience #oilpastel #mattcollier #artforsale #artgallerylondon #ink #drawingnow #abstract #contemporaryart #medicalart #mistakemaking #botany #tumor #staywander

Drawing mishmash of sketchbook, early drawing & a

Drawing mishmash of sketchbook, early drawing & a glimpse beautiful dirty unplanned drawing that's inspired the next. #artworkinprogress
#entanglement #drawing #anatomical #flow #contemporarydrawing #botanical

Thought I'd share an older drawing: 'Topsy Turvy' $Thought I'd share an older drawing: 'Topsy Turvy' Pen, ink, watercolour on paper. (51.5x69cm). Medicinal flowers: Mexican marigold, cinnamon. #Rainbows and #refraction. Moon phases. #Magic and #movement. #anatomical #drawing #flow #contemporarydrawing #botanical #medicinalplants #flowers #line #artgallery #artandscience$

Hope you enjoy 'Daphne's Vaccination (Known Cure f

Hope you enjoy 'Daphne's Vaccination (Known Cure for the Unknown)'. PRINT watercoloured here (21x29.5cm). Original black & white pencil drawing is 60x93cm.

How does an artist say something political yet not preach a one-sided (usually subjective ill-informed) view nor sit-on-the-fence? Playing with hopes, fears, magic, transformation is way, we are all different in our minds eye now aren't we? Well, you are.

#vaccination #metamorphosis #medicalart #illness #health #howtowatercolour #artprint #contemporarydrawing #botanical #rose #flowers #artgallery #artandscience #rubbergloves #mattcollier #artforsale

'Spontaneous Correlation' A drawing built on accid

'Spontaneous Correlation' A drawing built on accident, spray, scatter graph images from body scans, (as well as frustration, elation, disappointment & back again). Elements talk. Repetition within chaos, chaos is pattern not yet understood. Hehe weee weee. The organis grows, tries to repeat, to mirror, produce if possible, its not impossible, its all impossible.
Correlation without resolution equaling a communicative causation.
Pencil, ink, oil pastel on paper (75.7x56cm) Part of the 'Neoplasm' new formations series.
This artwork hung around so close to letting it go, so in annoyance I let go & worked into it more freely, so as I didn't really care to make the so-called mistakes - all amongst the obvious contrast of control, linear perfectionism and keeping the four parts at a small distance.
Making artwork isn't any one thing all of the time, though it possibly sounds more assertive to say it? I NEVER talk in absolutes! Ha. Gobbldygook.

I seek these disparate parts, elements, or Beings coming together , exchanging connection & communication..

#difference #repetition #contemporaryart #flower #bogonia #drawing #dibujo #easel #contemporarydrawing #communication #anatomical #medical #scatterdiagram #correlation #botanical #beautifulscience #scienceandart #ink #bodyabstract #art #worldscollide #neoplasm #artforsalebytheartist

'Spontaneous Correlation' DETAILS (75.7x56cm) Corr

'Spontaneous Correlation' DETAILS (75.7x56cm) Correlation without resolution equaling a communicative causation.

Another artwork that seemed finished but wasn't satisfied, it hung around, so in annoyance I let go & worked into more freer as I didn't really care to make the so-called mistakes (amongst the linear perfectionism!). I don't find making artwork easy, those who say it's relaxing and lovely aren't really in the same conversation. To be honest making things isn't any one thing all of the time, though it possibly sounds better & more assertive to say it? I simply can't talk in absolutes. (In a world currently gorging itself attempting to dictate their absolute judgements whilst drunken on power).

Whereby I seek these disparate parts, elements, or Beings to be in any type of growthful connection & communication..

#details #difference #repetition #glitch #contemporaryart #flower #bogonia #drawing #dibujo #contemporarydrawing #communication #anatomical #medical #scatterdiagram #correlation #botanical #beautifulscience #scienceandart #ink #bodyabstract #art #worldscollide

'Tickly Trachea' 66x86cm. The loser freer more ra

'Tickly Trachea' 66x86cm. The loser freer more rapid pencil line drawing was aided by the fact that I was working on a far more painstakingly difficult drawing at the same time ('Toxic Nausea' - on plastic).

'Tickly Trachea (coughing up tumours)'. Lungs (Geranium, Wine). Tumours illustrated: Primary, Secondary, terciary, quaternary, quinary,, senary, septenary, octonary,, denary. 66x86cm (pencil, oil pastel on paper).

#anatomical #drawing #flow #cough #tumour #medicalart #trachea #illness #lungs #pencil #mistakemaking #contemporarydrawing #oilpastel #botanical #geranium #flowers #botany #artgallery #artandscience #artgallerylondon #artforsale #drawingoftheday #drawingnow #contemporaryart #notation #creative #instaart #health #veins

DETAILS post of: 'Tickly Trachea' (coughing up tum

DETAILS post of: 'Tickly Trachea' (coughing up tumours), Lungs (Geranium, Wine). Tumours illustrated: Primary, Secondary, terciary, quaternary, quinary,, senary, septenary, octonary, denary.

66x86cm (pencil, oil pastel on paper).

#anatomical #drawing #flow #cough #tumour #medicalart #trachea #illness #lungs #pencil #mistakemaking #contemporarydrawing #oilpastel #botanical #geranium #flowers #botany #artgallery #artandscience #artgallerylondon #artforsale #drawingoftheday #drawingnow #contemporaryart #notation #creative #instaart #health

'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

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