Mathew McFarren is the Traditional Artist Spotlight winning artist for the month of August 2019. He is an Ohio based artist who, for over 35 years, has worked as an illustrator, painter and educator.

Mathew’s Solo Art Exhibition will be featured on the website for the month of August 2019. The gallery will promote Mathew and his work on the Fusion Art website, individual online press releases to hundreds of outlets, email blasts to over 3,500+ buyers, collectors, galleries and art professionals, in online event calendars, art news websites and through the gallery’s extensive social media outlets.  Fusion Art’s objective is to promote the Artist Spotlight winning artists, worldwide, to art professionals, gallerists, collectors and buyers.

Please read Mathew’s Artist Statement below as he describes his history and process in his words. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see his exhibition.

If you are interested in purchasing any of these award-winning pieces, or to see more of Mathew’s work, please visit his website.

Also, please visit Fusion Art’s YouTube Channel to see Mathew’s Solo Art Exhibition Video.

Thank you to all the artists who participated in the Artist Spotlight competition and congratulations to Mathew and the other Artist Spotlight winning artists.

Artist Statement

Painting intrigues and sometimes mystifies me. I appreciate how it communicates, that its message need not be easily decoded. In the process of painting I explore the physical properties—the value, color, texture and layers—of the paints themselves. When I paint, I search for something visually stimulating as well as for an intangible quality of personal significance. I try to capture energy.

As an artist, there are moments when I struggle for inspiration. I find it best not to fight the inspirational morass. A “creative quagmire” is a place where I find I always learn and grow. I’m of the opinion that the secret to sustainable productivity is to create for yourself. Creating works for a particular market, or following trends undermines the creative impulse.

I paint in many layers—some opaque and some translucent. I strive to to represent time, and the living vibrations around us. I employ a unique style of layering, leaving an intentional pentimento in some of my work.

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