# Petals in the breeze

Two fields of color, side by side - deep teal and warm sand, separated by the thinnest thread of light. Restrained, and perhaps for that reason deeply affecting. A painting that finds its power in what it leaves out.

Working from colors inspired by nature, Rita builds the surface slowly until the painting finds its own quiet balance.

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## Details

- **Price:** 368.0 USD
- **Vendor:** Art Scout
- **Type:** Original Painting
- **Tags:** abstract art, acrylic painting, buy original art online, nature inspired, original painting, Rita Matos, under 2500

## Variants

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| Default Title | 368.00 USD | In stock |

## Images

- Petals in the Breeze – color field painting by Rita with two adjacent fields of deep teal and warm sand separated by a thin thread of light, nature-inspired and quietly affecting
- Petals in the Breeze by Rita – detail of the thin luminous division between deep teal and warm sand color fields
- Petals in the Breeze by Rita – full canvas of restrained two-field composition in deep teal and warm sand
- Petals in the Breeze by Rita – close-up of slowly built teal surface finding its own quiet balance
- Petals in the Breeze by Rita – painting in room setting

## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 10"×8"
- **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