Matthew Schofield

Italian Soldiers, 4 x 6 inches, Oil on mylar on wood

Canadian Couple, 5” x 5,” Oil on Mylar on Panel

A Difficult Occasion, 5” x 7,” Oil on Mylar on Wood

A Faster Pace, 4” x 4,” Oil on Mylar on Panel

Casting a Long Shadow, 4” x 4,” Oil on Mylar on Wood

Engine, 4” x 6” Oil on Mylar on panel

Family Room, 4” x 6,” Oil on Mylar on Wood

Montreal, 6” x 6,” Oil on Mylar on Wood

Halifax, 6” x 6,” Oil on Mylar on Wood

Lynn, 4” x 4,” Oil on Mylar on Panel

McMaster Student, 4” x 4,” Oil on Mylar on Panel

Tennis, 6” x 6,” Oil on Mylar on Wood

Terry, 4” x 4,” Oil on Mylar on Panel

The Bear, 5” x 7,” Oil on Mylar on Wood

Walking on Ice, 4” x 4,” Oil on Mylar on Panel

Long Point Winter, 4” x 4,” Oil on Mylar on Panel

Warning, 4” x 6,” Oil on Mylar on Panel

Supernumeraries #4, 1.5 x 1 inch, Oil on glass

Mallard, 4” x 6,” Oil on Mylar on Panel

Schofield, Backyard, 4” x 6,” Oil on mylar on wood

Matthew Schofield is a Toronto based Canadian born artist who has been exhibiting his artwork in commercial galleries and artist run centres nationally and internationally since 1996. He has exhibited solo shows and group exhibitions in New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, Miami, Toronto and Florence. Matthew's work has been highlighted in Toronto Life Magazine, The Globe and Mail, and NOW Magazine. He is featured in the book Carte Blanche Volume 2: Painting, which is an overview of the state of Canadian painting in 2008. Matthew is a founding member of the blunt Collective, a group of artists investigating the role of narrative painting. In 2009 he was a finalist in the Kingston Prize for Portraiture. Matthew started his education in Architecture and finished as an honours graduate in fine arts from both McMaster University and Ontario College of Art and Design. In 2001 Matthew was nominated for a Primetime Emmy and in 2006 he was part of a group nomination for an Oscar for his digital matte painting work in film.

Matthew is focused on observing the ignored. The overarching theme of his work has been painting images of the unnoticed snapshots and overlooked moments while attempting to order the outcome of random sequences. Matthew creates images that are accidental compositions unwittingly created by digging and sorting through boxes and piles of hundreds of moments of suspended animation. It is part of an on-going exploration of collecting and hording of the incidental random moments in photographs. The resulting images are painted versions of the original photographs contemplated and filtered though the painter's eyes and hands resulting in the ordered outcome of the cumulative imagery.