About the Artist
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Hello and welcome.
I'm Lane Mathias and I paint, sketch and collage and I would rather be painting now than telling you 'a bit about myself'. However, I know that when I visit someone's website, the first thing I check out is their 'about' page because I want to find out all their little details so it's only fair I play too.
I was born in 1962, so getting on a bit and I grew up in Hampshire. Very nice it was too. I did a fine art degree in London and ended up living there for 20 years, husband, two daughters and working as a college lecturer. Eventually we moved to Suffolk and that's where all the painting action goes on today. I carry a sketchbook everywhere and sometimes I even draw in it. These sketches are often starting points for paintings and I sometimes bore people on social media showing them my sketchbooks but I think sketchbooks are fascinating and I love looking at other people's sketchbooks. Should I say 'sketchbook' again?
I paint landscapes, buildings, churches, street scenes, boats, birds. Not portraits, not yet anyway as I've never been moved to, although I love photographing people. I'm also a complete fan of the artists, John Piper and David Gentleman because they're masters of making the everyday, interesting and of simplifying the complicated in the most beautiful ways. I hope to do a smidgeon of the same.
I am on Facebook and Instagram (Lane Mathias Art) if you'd like to drop by but for now I'll say thank you, and hope you like what you see here.
Lane x
I'm Lane Mathias and I paint, sketch and collage and I would rather be painting now than telling you 'a bit about myself'. However, I know that when I visit someone's website, the first thing I check out is their 'about' page because I want to find out all their little details so it's only fair I play too.
I was born in 1962, so getting on a bit and I grew up in Hampshire. Very nice it was too. I did a fine art degree in London and ended up living there for 20 years, husband, two daughters and working as a college lecturer. Eventually we moved to Suffolk and that's where all the painting action goes on today. I carry a sketchbook everywhere and sometimes I even draw in it. These sketches are often starting points for paintings and I sometimes bore people on social media showing them my sketchbooks but I think sketchbooks are fascinating and I love looking at other people's sketchbooks. Should I say 'sketchbook' again?
I paint landscapes, buildings, churches, street scenes, boats, birds. Not portraits, not yet anyway as I've never been moved to, although I love photographing people. I'm also a complete fan of the artists, John Piper and David Gentleman because they're masters of making the everyday, interesting and of simplifying the complicated in the most beautiful ways. I hope to do a smidgeon of the same.
I am on Facebook and Instagram (Lane Mathias Art) if you'd like to drop by but for now I'll say thank you, and hope you like what you see here.
Lane x