Sam Matthews

Sam Matthews is an American born artist. He was raised on his family’s farm and educated at Central Missouri State University. He has a background in education, art and library science, with a Masters Degree and a Post Masters Degree in Library Science and Instructional Technology. After teaching internationally for 20 years, he now lives and works in Ireland. The subjects of Sam’s paintings range from book illustrations, to classic landscapes, to romantic or fantasy paintings, but more recently to semi-abstract works. His main discipline is watercolour, but he has also worked in oils, acrylics and bronze. He works with a small, flexible palette – painting on heavy textured, French, handmade paper. In each painting, he focuses on the paper’s features to enhance the grain and colours of his paint. His style and selection of subjects makes his work unique and easily recognisable. As an artist, Sam’s recent studies in abstract have been instrumental in the creation of his current work. Defined as, “Semi abstract, 2 dimensional Cityscapes”, his work can be found in many private collections.