# early dark days

Deep greens and blacks pressing in from the edges, and the light - what little there is - holding its ground quietly. Something about endurance here, about the particular beauty of days that ask a lot of you.

Rita builds her paintings through a quiet rhythm of layering and removal, letting the surface evolve until it reaches its own stillness.

[Browse all works by Rita Matos](/collections/rita-matos)

## Details

- **Price:** 1617.61 USD
- **Vendor:** Art Scout
- **Type:** Original Painting
- **Tags:** abstract art, acrylic painting, buy original art online, dark palette, nature inspired, original painting, Rita Matos, under 2500

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## Images

- Early Dark Days – color field painting by Rita in deep greens and blacks pressing in from the edges with small remaining light holding its ground, about endurance and difficult beautiful days
- Early Dark Days by Rita – detail of deep green and black pressing from edges around remaining quiet light
- Early Dark Days by Rita – full canvas of dark endurance painting in deep green and black reaching its own stillness
- Early Dark Days by Rita – close-up of green and black layered surface evolved through quiet rhythm of layering and removal
- Early Dark Days by Rita – painting in room setting
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## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 30"×24"
- **Artist Material:** Acrylic and pencil on canvas
- **Artist Name:** Rita Matos
- **About The Artist Link:** https://www.artscout.pro/collections/Rita-Matos

### About The Artist Content

Rita Matos (b. 1988) is a Portuguese-born, London-based mixed media artist. Working from her studio in London, she creates paintings informed by her surroundings and emotional landscape, using abstraction as a means of reflection and inquiry.

Her practice is guided by an intuitive process of mark-making, producing works that range from large-scale, gestural compositions to more intimate paintings. Through layered applications of color, Matos combines expressive, physical gestures with moments of restraint and carefully considered abstract imagery, allowing each work to evolve organically through the act of making.

Central to her work are ideas of accumulation and disappearance, surface and depth, and fragmentation and cohesion. She approaches painting as a process of construction and deconstruction - adding, erasing, and reworking the surface -where each mark becomes a trace of time and experience. Painting thus functions as an act of remembrance, capturing the residue of both presence and absence.

Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and is held in private collections internationally.

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