Matt Pricken

Artist Bio
I am a freelance artist & designer currently living and working in Vermont at my home art studio. Working with a composite of pen/ink & watercolor, my work focuses primarily on realistic renderings inspired largely by my travels around the world & my reverence for the environment. Through my work, I strive to minimize backgrounds or reference materials in order to isolate the subject, focusing on what I find most important. As a self taught artist, I have sought to constantly advance and evolve my style by continuously experimenting in new mediums. In my first series, dedicated to the history of classical European architecture, I relied exclusively on a cross-hatching style using only a ballpoint pen. Changing styles, I began to introduce new shading techniques into my work by incorporating watercolor and relying less on cross-hatching. This style gave my work a noticeably softer and looser feel, while still keeping the signature rigid and defined in nature of a pen outline. Over time, this adaptation to new a medium has lead me to fuse the two styles together. I use a ball-point pen to create bold and distinct outlines, then using watercolors, I soften those boarders until they flow together harmoniously. Currently, I am working on an Animal Series that attempts to highlight the natural flow and beauty of watercolors, by focusing heavily on blending and layering techniques to achieve vivid detail. My art has been featured in jury selected shows for Kent, CT Art Association Gallery, Richter, CT Arts Center. I often participate in outdoor craft shows in CT, NY, VT, and MA, and am currently displaying works at the New England Open Markets and the SoWa market in Boston MA, the BVT Market in Burlington VT, the Spruce Peek Market in Stowe VT, and the Burke Fall Festival in Burke VT

Main Subject

Abstracts, flowers , design

Materials and Techniques

A combination of oil, acrylics and metallic paint used to form colorful mix medium abstracts with a reflective quality in some of the pieces.

 Website: http://www.mdavidgallery.com