After sustaining a Traumatic brain injury in 2016 landscape paintings have been an opportunity for me to build a sense of emotional and visual memory I no longer possess. These paintings are a record of the wild places I visit throughout the north coast and beyond. Landscape painting affords me a subject that suits my long standing affinity for intense color palettes and vibrant hues while still creating a sense of space and atmosphere, and remaining in the abstract. My latest paintings focus on the changing world of bays and estuaries, where landscapes are liminal by their nature, and withdrawing waters leave rich pallets of shimmering mud and shallows that are chaotically strewn with the days flotsam and jetsam. 

June 2025
Mathew Goodrich