ANGELA COOMBS MATTHEWS
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BIOGRAPHY
Angela Coombs Matthews lives and works in the Riverina NSW. She has been developing her art practice across the mediums of photography, painting, drawing and printmaking for over twenty years since completing a Bachelor Arts Visual, in Photomedia.
Angela has worked as a professional photographer, an art tutor through casual and self-employment and a picture framer.
Angela began printmaking in 2007 after discovering the drypoint and collagraph methods. She was seeking more tonal and mark making possibilities and undertook some workshops and training in etching and workshops in monoprint.
CONNECTION TO BALDESSIN STUDIO
In 2014 I was making digital images from multiple manipulated photographic images, and printing them digitally, however I felt that the imagery needed to be hand printed. This is how I discovered The Baldessin Press & Studio. I undertook workshops in direct to plate photogravure. I have returned there to use the photopolymer plate making facilities, printing equipment and to have an enriching creative experience with other artists. - Angela Coombs Matthews
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Elements in nature and the physical world that are absorbed at a particular time and place. This led to embarking on a voyage of the imagination involving a fusion of images, tonal planes, mark making, linear and textural qualities.
Bound together by themes of landscape, memory, responding and reimagining, these works are a selection of a dreamy universe of imaginary places and moments.
I am concerned with evoking mood, feelings and new visual experiences from familiar subject matter in the physical and natural world. My work communicates my internal musings and I invite viewers into their own process of interpretation, contemplation and emotional engagement.
