Artist Matt Story‘s oil paintings of women & children swimming in beautiful waters are both abstract & hyperrealistic. The artist uses deep contrasting hues to capture nature and detail to bring the human experience of swimming to life.
“I try to paint contemporary life as to capture crystals of pristine memory that we all share but never describe to one another. Each composition uses the gesture of figure or setting to evoke a platonic form, an archetypal notion, a distilled essence, that thing that lasts beyond the moment,” –states the artist on the about section of his website.
Story studied art from an early age and demonstrated a unique skill for rendering verisimilitude, or hyper-realism.
“I was lauded for ‘photo-realistic’ technique, but I was never after that, really, after what a camera impartially sees, because there’s so much more there, captured only by the human filter of memory,” Story explains.
Story has worked for over twenty years from his studio in Los Angeles but in 2013 began traveling with his wife, and painting for extended periods in locations as diverse as Charleston, Santa Fe and New York City.
Story’s style of oil painting on canvas and panel very closely resemble that of the classical method, used for centuries by artists such as Titian and Caravaggio, two of Story’s heroes.
To see more of his brilliant work, check out Matt Story’s website here.
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