Collection: Mathew Hooker

@mookerzshot

www.mhookerartist.com

Mathew Hooker is primarily a painter working with acrylics on canvas. His works are an attempt to find the truth of the lived experience. Each picture represents a journey, or more precisely an exploration into both the landscapes and seascapes he observes and creates. He simultaneously considers the observed reality, personal experience, memory and imagination giving us more than a window into a world but also a version of an environment filtered through a consciousness. He allows the image to evolve throughout the process and uses a ‘whatever it takes’ approach to best convey his interpretation of the subject matter.

Painting for Hooker is a way to explore and workshop through his lived psychological and emotional experiences. His choice of subject matter, his compositions and approach to painting are carefully managed to challenge and offer insights into habitual ways of perception.