Matthew Bourne
Midland artist Matthew Bourne graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Bourne’s work is derived from and inspired by sight, sound and emotion from the real world and his belief that painting is a timeless, emotive and transcendental means of expression.
Bourne believes the process of painting is integral to its content and the quality is of foremost importance. He aims to set up a tension in his paintings between spontaneity and risk and a more measured controlled approach. Within this approach he strives to create paintings that have the right balance in mood, light, texture, brushwork, placement, incident and structure.
To flick, smudge, pour, spray, spread, rub, splat, squeeze, draw, scribble and dribble in order to create tough, uncompromising paintings which carry the weight of art history and relate to people on many levels.
Bourne hopes his paintings will keep evolving; exactly where it is hard to say because so much comes from within the painting.