# written in the stars

Deep teal and sage, sweeping and unhurried. About vastness - looking up into something with no edges, tracing meaning in the spaces between forms. The quality of a night sky felt from the inside. You don't read it. You find yourself inside it.

Through layering and reworking the surface, Rita allows the painting to gradually find its own quiet truth.

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

## Details

- **Price:** 943.61 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

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## Images

- Written in the Stars – color field painting by Rita in deep teal and sage, sweeping and unhurried, evoking the vastness of a night sky felt from the inside through layering and reworking
- Written in the Stars by Rita – detail of deep teal and sage sweeping across canvas evoking night sky vastness
- Written in the Stars by Rita – full canvas of unhurried teal and sage night-sky color field
- Written in the Stars by Rita – close-up of layered teal surface found from inside rather than read from outside
- Written in the Stars by Rita – painting in room setting
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## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 20"×16"
- **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