Caia Matheson

Caia Matheson is a contemporary oil painter based in Eastbourne, East Sussex. Her richly layered abstract and figurative paintings explore themes of duality, transformation and journey, reflecting a lifelong fascination with the relationship between opposites—light and darkness, stillness and movement, the visible and invisible, memory and place. Drawing on landscapes, cultures and personal experience, her work creates immersive visual narratives where colour, texture and gesture evoke both physical and emotional journeys.
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Matheson's earliest memories are rooted in the natural world, spending time in the wilderness of Kruger National Park and developing a deep connection with its wildlife and expansive landscapes. Raised alongside a Xhosa nanny and a Zulu gardener, she was immersed in African storytelling, traditions and ritual, experiences that nurtured an early awareness of the many ways different cultures interpret the world.
At the age of seven, she emigrated with her family to Tokyo, Japan, where she attended an international school. The dramatic contrasts between Africa and Japan—nature and metropolis, tradition and innovation, East and West—became formative influences that continue to unde...

BTech Visual Arts and 3D (Distinction)
Barnet College
Wood Street
Barnet
London
EN5 4AZ

A Level
Art
History of Art
Lansdowne College
40-44 Bark Place
Kensington
London

O Level
Art
History of Art
English Language
Japanese
Ashwell House
Pembridge Square
Nottinghill Gate
London

St Andrews School for Girls
Johannesburg
South Africa

International School of the Sacred Heart
Tokyo
Japan

2026 | 28 March-31 May | Odyssey Group Exhibition | Hastings Contemporary Museum | Hastings
2026 | 22 May - 15 July | Urban Pulse Group Show | Gallery Grounds | Southampton
2026 | June | Group Show | Wimpole Estate | Royston | Cambridgeshire
2025 | October-November | Group Show | NatWest | Cambridge
2025 | December | Rowan Charity Auction | Cambridge
2024 | 25-28 July | FLUX Exhibition | 206 Marylebone | London
2024 | September | Group Show | NatWest | Cambridge
2023 | 7-10 December | FLUX Exhibition | 178 St James Piccadilly | London
2022 | 17-26 June | FLUX Exhibition | Design District | Greenwich Peninsula | London
2022 | Feb-March | Raising the Bar | Online Art Auction
2021 | November | FLUX Exhibition Design District | Greenwich Peninsula | London
2019 | July | Turning Tides Festival | Greenwich Peninsula | London
2019 | July | Women in Art Exhibition | Elena Shchukina Gallery | Mayfair | London
2019 | March | FLUX Exhibition | The National Army Museum Chelsea | London
2018 | May-June | Group Exhibition | Elena Shchukina Gallery Mayfair | London
2018 | April FLUX Exhibition | Chelsea College of Arts | Chelsea | London
2017 | October | Private Solo Exhibition | Stefano Ricci | Mayfair | London
2017 | July | FLUX Exhibit...