Matthew Johnson – Melbourne based painter

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

Looming (formosus)

Coastal View

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.