# soft light, quiet shadows

Blush pink and deep teal, meeting at a place that has no name. Warm and cool at once, tender and a little melancholy. The kind of light you want to stay inside. It asks nothing of you except to be still.

Rita allows the painting to develop through layered washes of color, returning to the surface until it settles into its own calm.

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

## Details

- **Price:** 2156.81 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

- Soft Light Quiet Shadows – color field painting by Rita in blush pink and deep teal meeting at an unnamed place, warm and cool at once, tender and melancholy through layered washes of color
- Soft Light Quiet Shadows by Rita – detail of blush pink and deep teal meeting in unnamed tender threshold
- Soft Light Quiet Shadows by Rita – full canvas of blush and teal asking nothing except stillness
- Soft Light Quiet Shadows by Rita – close-up of layered blush pink settling into deep teal in warm and cool convergence
- Soft Light Quiet Shadows by Rita – painting in room setting
- soft light, quiet shadows

## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 24"×36"
- **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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