Matthew Lesniewski

Born in Oregon and raised in Colorado, Matthew Lesniewski now lives and works in Nederland, Colorado in the heart of the front range region. A self taught painter, Matthew works as a massage therapist in his off hours and uses his knowledge of anatomy and the human spirit to capture people's energetic selves on canvas. Highly inspired by his love of psychology, philosophy, and theology, Matthew's work are almost religious portraits that show people in expressionistic and abstract ways, pulling together the spiritual realms of color as explored by painters like Kandinsky and Rothko.Working with acrylics and a quick pace, he throws colors together with wild brush strokes, impasto techniques, and drip painting to create high energy works that pop and dazzle the senses. Using acrylic paints for its ability to be worked quickly and with lots of energy, Matthew's work displays itself in the forms of beings or abstract paintings that seem to have a life of their own.