Cecilia Matson
2 June 2005
"... then comes spring."

“The theme of this body of work is about holding onto the promise of spring. The promise that barren land will again produce flowers, that morning will follow night, and that an end can mean a new beginning, that the darkest hour is just before dawn. These ideas are expressed though images of urban landscape. Images that are a balance between a record of a subject, the city and its changing face, and my emotional interpretation of life within it.”

“I paint using ink, but with twigs not paint brushes. The twigs create a scratched effect on the paper, which is ideal for the structural nature of my paintings. The analytical approach I take to drawing the structures, coupled with the fluidity of the ink, creates a dynamic balance between order and chaos that is characteristic of city scenes” Cecilia Matson studied art at the City & Guilds of London Art School before taking up her place studying History and Politics at the University of Liverpool. She has previously shown at the Young Artists’ exhibition at Christie’s and the Royal Watercolour Soceity Summer Exhibtion in 1999 at which she received a record four awards. She is now working on commissions in the UK and USA. She is also the recipient of the Singer Friedlander/Sunday Times award in 2001 and the Stoke Robert’s Bursary Award to the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Young Artist Award 2005.