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Acrylic and pencil on canvas
16"×22"
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Acrylic and pencil on canvas

16"×22"

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Sage and slate and a faint thread of gold. The canvas feels suspended, caught between two states - neither arriving nor departing, but resting in the space between. Honest about that in-between feeling. A painting that knows how to wait.

The colors Rita uses are inspired by the natural world, and she works the surface slowly - building, softening, and returning to it until the painting settles into itself.

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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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{

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{

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