Caia Matheson

Caia Matheson is a Contemporary Oil Painter and currently lives and works in Eastbourne, East Sussex. Her work features layered colourful abstracts and figures that continually reference themes of antimony or contradiction such as light/dark, stillness/movement, the visible and invisible.

Matheson was born in Johannesburg, South Africa where she would delight in nature and the wild animals of Kruger National Park. Being raised by a Xhosa nanny and gardener from the Zulu tribe both living on the property, her youth was filled with tribal stories and cultural rituals.

At age 7 she emigrated with her family to Tokyo, Japan to attend an International School. The contrast of cultures as well as the rural versus city locations began her fascination with contradictions and paradoxes. Spending her formative years in Tokyo, she would still visit South Africa on a yearly basis.

On one such visit to Joubert Park in Johannesburg, her mother shared the story of racial segregation illustrated by the black and white painted benches in the park - an absurdity that would begin the emblematic nature of colour in the young artist's mind.

On multiple journeys, Matheson visited various Asian countries, discovering unfamiliar and exotic places in...

BTech Visual Arts & 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

2024 | 25-28 July FLUX Exhibition 206 Marylebone | London
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 Exhibition Stefano Ricci Mayfair | London
FLUX Exhibition Chelsea College of Arts Chelsea London July 2017
Change & Transformation Elena Shchukina Gallery Mayfair London May/June 2017
FLUX Exhibition The Old Truman Brewery London November 2016
FLUX Exhibition The Royal College of Art December London 2015
Connect 2 Colour Exhibition Lacey Contemporary Gallery London August 2015
Elements’ Exhibition Gabriel Fine Art Gallery Notting Hill Gate London July 2015
‘Lungs’ Exh...