Title:

A Play on Light - No.175

Artist:

Matt Brown

Website:

http://www.mattbrownart.com

For Sale:

£100-£149

Category:

Digital Art

Artist Comments:

Since my days as an animator, I’ve been fascinated by three facets of nature – light, movement and texture. The forms I find most beautiful are those that display these three facets.

From a scientific standpoint, these can all be explained by the mathematical laws that govern everything. But what fascinated me was how such relatively simple rules could create such an endless variety of complex and beautiful forms. How was this possible?

I first asked this question as an animator, when having to recreate the outside world, object by object, in a 3D virtual environment, then bringing it to life frame by frame. My fascination has never ceased. Trying to get to the bottom of this puzzle is what has lead me, step by step, toward abstract art.

Now, when creating abstract art, I am trying to tap into and understand those same laws of nature. The same laws that govern equally the swirl in a cup of coffee and the swirl of a galaxy. The laws that, over millennia, give rise to the mottled surface of a lichen-encrusted rock.

This underlying pattern to everything seems always to be abstract: the symmetry of a flower head, the apparent randomness of air currents shaping the path of a bird. It’s all one huge mystery to me. But I know there’s an underlying explanation. A meaning. For me, this is the what abstract art is.

This is why one person might see my work and say “Hey, that looks like an underwater coral reef,” whilst someone else might say “I was thinking it was sunlight shining through leaves”, and so on. On the front page of my website I introduce my work with the words:

When the human mind is confronted by something alien, our imagination is tickled by our need to find patterns. A face in the moon, an archer in the heavens. With abstract art, these fleeting glimpses offer us the chance to explore entire worlds within our minds.

Artist Profile:

I’m a fulltime artist, living on the Isle of Man.

As you will see from my portfolio, most of my works are digital paintings. Digital painting is similar to traditional painting except instead of using pigment, the artist paints with light. Painting with light is fantastic. As with any exciting new tool, it offers up whole universes of discovery for the artist to explore.

       

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