by James Matheson | May 19, 2022 | process
by James Matheson | Mar 3, 2021 | art during COVID, canadian art, contemporary art, social isolation
New art. A new year. Works on paper and canvas done as 2020 ended and 2021 began. Perhaps the lack of social contact during the pandemic has me more focused. I feel these pieces reflect a new resolution in my...
by James Matheson | Nov 15, 2020 | process
A short video that shows one of the processes I go through to seek ideas for drawings and paintings. Using a macro lens I photographed inspiring textures, shapes, and compositions in an abandoned dump. I then use elements of these kinds of shots to inform my work on...
by James Matheson | May 19, 2020 | art during COVID, canadian art, contemporary art, galleries closed, process
A one minute look at making a contemporary artwork using acrylic and oil stick on paper. During this long social isolation, art has become an anchor, an anti-anxiety cure, an outlet in an inward...
by James Matheson | Apr 12, 2020 | inspirations, observations, process
During the strange spring of the Covid 19 pandemic, I have been trying to get out, into the woods nearby, to clear my head and seek inspiration by focussing on observations in nature. This is a thinking process video – not a record of art-making – a record...
