Matthew Whitney is a Seattle-based artist, working primarily in oil paints. He received his BA in Art from Whitworth University in Spokane, WA, and exhibits his paintings throughout the Pacific Northwest. Using expressionistic imagery, he works with spiritual and religious themes, stemming from his own beliefs but also encouraging the viewer to create unique connections between the work and their own personal experience.
“My oil paintings are visual meditations on life, creation and faith. I want my work to be a visual language that communicates to the viewer the spiritual and mysterious elements of our reality around us.”
To view more of the artist’s work, please visit www.matthewwhitney.com.
Oil and acrylic paint on masonite Approx. 27" x 37"For this piece, I wanted to take a two-dimensional and "break" it. I used one of Aesop's Fables (in particular, the narrowly defined "Moral of the Story") as narrative for the images. I sketched out my composition on...
I wanted to create a painting that confronts the lack of faith and doubt that I constantly encounter in my spiritual journey, hoping to communicate to the viewer that we all share a common bond of struggling with answers to the great questions of life. For the...
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