# in the shadow

Olive, grey, deep plum - colors that gather and then scatter, like light through leaves, like the tail end of a dream. Something tender here, something that doesn't quite want to be looked at directly. Each layer holds what came before.

Her palette grows out of natural light and landscape, and through cycles of adding, softening, and erasing, the painting gradually finds its form.

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

## Details

- **Price:** 1401.93 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

## Variants

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## Images

- In the Shadow – color field painting by Rita in olive, grey, and deep plum gathering and scattering like light through leaves, tender and not wanting direct looking, each layer holding what came before
- In the Shadow by Rita – detail of olive, grey, and deep plum forms gathering like light through leaves on layered surface
- In the Shadow by Rita – full canvas of tender gathering composition in olive, grey, and plum
- In the Shadow by Rita – close-up of plum and grey forms built through cycles of adding, softening, and erasing
- In the Shadow by Rita – painting in room context
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## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 22"×26"
- **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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> Updated: 2026-08-28