# Overcast dreams

Deep blue and teal gathering into something heavy, something imminent. The sky before rain - that particular pressure in the air, that shift in the light. You can almost feel the temperature drop. A painting that holds its breath.

Rita builds the surface patiently, layering and adjusting color until the painting reaches its own quiet equilibrium.

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## Details

- **Price:** 1752.41 USD
- **Vendor:** Art Scout
- **Type:** Original Painting
- **Tags:** abstract art, acrylic painting, buy original art online, meditative, nature inspired, original painting, Rita Matos, under 2500

## Variants

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## Images

- Overcast Dreams – color field painting by Rita in deep blue and teal gathering into something heavy and imminent, evoking the sky before rain and the particular pressure in the air before it falls
- Overcast Dreams by Rita – detail of deep blue and teal pressing together like the sky before rain holding its breath
- Overcast Dreams by Rita – full canvas of heavy imminent blue and teal composition at quiet equilibrium
- Overcast Dreams by Rita – close-up of layered blue-teal surface patiently adjusted until the painting holds its breath
- Overcast Dreams by Rita – painting in room context
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## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 20"×37"
- **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