Mael Matthews

Professional artist and teacher of art, with work held in private collections around the world. Mael Matthews is Head of Art at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School. He is also a Senior Art examiner for a prominent exam board. He trained as a Landscape Architect and subsequently worked in both the public and private sectors, developing schemes in collaboration with public artists and designers. This formal training has had a substantial influence on Mael's artwork. His paintings amalgamate an appreciation of the aesthetics of shape and form with experimental development of surface texture. Mael’s work has been influenced by the work of the Futurists.

1982 - 1990 Bridlington School
1990 - 1995 Leeds Metropolitan University, BA Hons, Post Grad Dip landscape Architecture
1996 - 1997 Bretton Hall, PGCE Art and Design
Exhibitions
Sewerby Hall, Sewerby, East Yorkshire 1995
The Art Cafe, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, 1997
Bretton Hall Powerhouse 2, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, 1997
Ferens public gallery, Hull, 1997
Dixon Bate Gallery, The Victoria Quarter, Leeds, West Yorkshire, 1998
The Gascoigne Gallery, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, 1998 onwards
The Weaverbird Gallery, Ilkley, West Yorkshire May and June 2001
The Weaverbird Gallery, Ilkley, West Yorkshire August 2001
The Castle Gallery, Richmond, Yorkshire. 2003
Christie's, London Art for Life Event. March 2003
Galleria Lazzerini, Michigan, USA. Jan 2004
Christie's, London Art for Life event. March 2004
Christies, London Art for Life. March 2005
The Priory Gallery, Bridlington, East Yorkshire, Summer 2008

Mael currently has worked hanging in private collections in Britain, Germany, Holland, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Tonga.