The Week In Paint by Dr. Matthews

Utopia and Contemporary Art

I am now sitting in the Starbucks on Wagram near the Arc de Triomphe, my favorite Starbucks around here, reflecting on my week last week regarding my daily painting goal. In one sense, I fell short, because i dd not produce 5 new paintings. But I was productive. I travelled to La Concha beach in Spain, to preview the area and meet with two gallerists, for my planned art teaching experiment, where I hope to get a group of artists to join me there this June for a week or more. If you wish to be one of those artists, give a shout! My idea is that in the morning, we paint or sketch, and in the afternoon we visit galleries, museums, and do some art networking. The gallerists were warm and welcoming, the beach was beautiful, and the accommodations were perfect. My only complaint was that there is no…

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The Week In Paint by Dr. Matthews

I am now sitting in the Starbucks on Wagram near the Arc de Triomphe, my favorite Starbucks around here, reflecting on my week last week regarding my daily painting goal. In one sense, I fell short, because i dd not produce 5 new paintings. But I was productive. I travelled to La Concha beach in Spain, to preview the area and meet with two gallerists, for my planned art teaching experiment, where I hope to get a group of artists to join me there this June for a week or more. If you wish to be one of those artists, give a shout! My idea is that in the morning, we paint or sketch, and in the afternoon we visit galleries, museums, and do some art networking. The gallerists were warm and welcoming, the beach was beautiful, and the accommodations were perfect. My only complaint was that there is no parking whatsoever. The paintings pictured here are small oils, and available for sale for $100 each. Click on them to see a close up view.

Sincerely, Dr. Elizabeth R. Matthews

Lets give this a try

After nearly two years, during which I defended my dissertation, made my corrections within the three months allotted, attended the conferring ceremony at the Burren College of Art and officially became a Doctor of Philosophy, it is time to resurrect my blog: I will continue to review art in terms of its utopian quality, AND I will now publish my own paintings, sculptures and other projects. I will put out my shingle as a Doctor of Art. Here are some recent painting fresh from my studio, just outside of Paris where I now am living, and a picture from my conferring ceremony where I officially became a Doctor of Philosophy, in Fine Art.

 

18/04/2017 REPRO FREE: President NUI, Galway Dr. Jim Browne with PHD graduate Elizabeth Matthews and President Burren College of Art Mary Hawkes at the 13th conferring ceremony, held in the Minstrels gallery the 16th century Newtown Castle at the heart of the BCA campus, exemplifies the continued success of the Burrenís alternative model of art education . The Irish and international graduates included Elizabeth Matthews, conferred with a PhD for her research on Utopian studies , and six international graduates whose work on display in the BCA gallery addressed the ultimate question, ìwho am I called to beî In her address President of the college Mary Hawkes Greene referred to the unique place based educational model committed to individual student centred education accredited by NUIGalway , and how it effectively embraces the often conflicting forces of the global and the local, the public and the private as well as the collective and the individual. . Photo:Andrew Downes, xposure