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In 2006 Canadian born artist Matthew Schofield was nominated for an Oscar Award for digital matte painting in the film Superman Returns and most recently was a finalist in the 2009 Kingston Prize for portraiture and published in Magenta’s Carte Blanche II. Matthew has been exhibiting his artwork nationally and internationally since 1998. The overarching theme of his work is painting life’s overlooked moments and then providing order to these random sequences through the process of gallery installation, where the artwork becomes a fragmented film, capturing vignettes of subject matter and composition.
Artist statement ( 4” x 6” . Oil on Mylar on panels):
These paintings are from a series of work called 'Making the most of Snap Decisions' which began when artist Matthew Schofield received his first point-and-shoot film camera at age 11.
Working with a found photo sorted from old boxes he reclaimed at his parent’s home, Schofield approached this piece from a place not at all artificial. The resulting painting is a captured moment – a small painted image on a 4" x 6" inch wooden block – installed as a single event, or as an example of a person’s existence at a specific stage of their life. In 'Making the most of Snap Decisions' the incidental photo-documentation of yesteryear is resuscitated and reconsidered as a deliberate oil-based composition of the now.