Peter Matthews is an English artist who works exclusively along the coast, in the ocean and occasionally, over the last few years, creeping inland into the mountains and deserts. As a landscape-based artist, his work explores a direct and lived experience with time, place, space and the physical and spiritual relationships with nature. He does not work from a studio and therefore his works and process of being out in the landscape challenge and seek balance with the elements of the ever-changing climate, earth and extended universe. Since 2016, when he had to suddenly leave where he was working in Taiwan due to family reasons, Matthews has been working on an ongoing series of paintings which are made up of painted canvases from different geographical places. These hybrid paintings, featuring sewn together canvases and found objects from places far apart from one another, seek to question and explore where a painting can be found, made and then remade once back in England. Fragmented and incomplete, separated from their whole and sometimes with pieces left behind in another country, the hybrid paintings speak in their own painterly language on issues and topics such as migration, movement, relocation, presence and absence memory and loss as well as embracing a new identity of being a shape shifter and chameleon in a world which is becoming more and more unbalanced and ungrounded. Peter Matthews received his BA and MA in fine art from the Nottingham Trent University. His works have been shown internationally at galleries and museums such as the Drawing Center, New York; The North Carolina Museum of Art; Künstlerforum Bonn, Germany; Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Fundacion Beulas, Spain; the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; the James Cohan Gallery, New York and Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paulo, Brazil.