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Art By Matt Davison
Art By Matt Davison
Artist Matt Davison working on an
Auckland City Scape Impression
YouTube url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9WeeXiPL00
Artist Matt Davison talks art and Melbourne
Auckland artist Matt Davison ventures to Melbourne this week to expand his career and painting style.
Matt has
proved popular with his works of Auckland city and surrounds
and has paintings in collections across the
world.
"Matt's work will value up well, I sense the work
of a huge vivid imagination, coupled with fantasy, and
exaggerated impressionism." Andrew Doyle, The Age,
Melbourne
Infonews.co.nz reporter Peter Hodge spoke with
Matt this week about his art, history and where he is going
next.
check him out
at:
www.obd.co.nz/mattdavison/paintings
Born the sun
of the successful photo-realist painter "Don Wilson" it
would come as no shock that art would play a major part in
Matt's life.
Even at age five Matt spent hours painting
in his fathers studio.
Later in life Matt would paint at
school, having his first commercial piece in the lobby of
Wellington's top hotel The Park Royal.
At the time Matt's work was influenced by the underground and infamous New Zealand expressionist painter "Philip Clairmont", with the large piece resembling the work of the famous painter.
After attending Wellington School of Design, Matt ventured into the world of film industry, where acting and production saw Matt work on some of New Zealand's more well known film and television projects.
In 2004 Matt ventured
to Australia where he took up painting again, further
expanding and defining his craft back in New Zealand a few
years later.
Since then, Matt has become recognized as a
unique technician of modern Expressionism, often the works
show hints of a more Impressionist style's that stem from
Matt's fondness of Monet ad Renoir.
"I would endure the
frustrations to achieve, some thing great. Monet tells
triumphant stories, in every painting he created. There is
no point to me otherwise, " Matt says.
Matt has works in
collection's in London, Melbourne, Glasgow, Canada and New
Zealand.
www.obd.co.nz/mattdavison/paintings
www.composeart.co.nz
to
contact Matt About his work email:
davisonnz@yahoo.com.au
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