Featured Artist: Mat Dumont

Mat Studied Art locally at Nene College, Northampton.

He also studied Graphic Design at The Nottingham Trent University before working in a Newspaper Publishers as Designer in Reading and then moving into advertising for two years.

He started freelancing after moving into web design and is still doing that today as well as painting. Mat has sold illustrative work to individuals, but has not yet exhibited.

Mat also writes electronic based music and guitar tracks for a band as well as enjoying competitive pub sports like snooker, pool, darts and fussball and would love to create some art using these disciplines

Artists Comments:
"I am interested in materials and how they react to paint.
Much of my work is based on experiments with different materials such as electrical tape (Portrait Blue) or man made fabrics (20 Squares).
I start a piece with nothing in mind apart from harmonising the elements I have chosen to use and producing a piece of work which exists as a record of my experiments.
Colours develop from the tones of the materials. Sometimes the materials denote the colour of the piece, but I usually employ colours in an expressionist way using the material to give depth and tone.
I am also interested in grid systems and working outside of them. Using man made fabrics and old clothes give me the constraints that I try to break."