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New Paintings
Matthew Webber

9-29 May 2026
Private View Saturday 9 May 2-6pm

Opening times
Saturdays 11-2pm

I was born and raised in Suffolk, but have lived in London since leaving Art School in the late nineties.  

My rural upbringing led me to seek out the greenest part of London that we could find, and my home and studio is located a stone’s throw from Epping Forest in Aldersbrook. As a result, many of my paintings are inspired and influenced by my experience of these green spaces and, although I’m not exactly a landscape painter, the paintings almost always use the local environment as a starting point.

I ride through the Forest most days – my GoPro camera trained on the forest canopy above, or on the trails that I pass through, and the blurred imagery of these short films forms the basis of the structures that appear in my work.

I call my process ‘Unpainting' – multiple layers of oil and acrylic are methodically applied over a period of months or sometimes years, creating a dense block of imagery and paint, which is subsequently scraped, sanded and jet-washed away. This reversal of the process creates new and accidental connections and relationships, as each stage of the making reveals itself – all the way back to the very first mark.

The method of making these works often resembles sculpture or carving more than painting. Long-buried colours and structures emerge through the surface, creating an intricately interwoven network of lines and motifs in which both the city and the woodland landscape in which the work had its origin now reappear.

At this stage the multiple layers of accumulated paint will either coalesce to form a finished work of art, or disappear completely, to be started again from scratch.

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