Matthew Johnson is a Melbourne based painter.

His represented by the Christine Abrahams Gallery and there is a detailed interview with the artist available here

Matthew Johnson’s paintings alert us to the physical presence of thousands of colours that vibrate across his optical environments. Often starting with a single colour, he mixes a vast palette in various shades so that colour permeates the surface of these paintings. Each painting is a ‘wet on wet’ process allowing for colours to gently merge and blend across the frenetic picture plane. Sometimes, circles are inscribed later, hovering on top of an abstracted grid. Foreground and background unite in a dazzling array of pulsating shades.
Titles offer further clues to the work. Lyrical and generic, the associative range of Johnson’s titles includes music (A Verdant Void (Scarlatti), Cantos), nature (Nocturne (Aural), Night Reflected) and more metaphysical evocations (Emanation, Permeation). Johnson’s affinity with nature is based on journeys to rural France, far north Queensland and Gabo Island off the far eastern coast of Victoria. These travels haunt his imagination as residual impressions that eventually find their way onto the canvas in an abstracted form.

Untitled 2003

Untitled 2003