Matthew Keiser

My work is inspired by my desire to have things. I can have anything that I want and all I have to do is paint it. Objects, Situations and Landscapes that I can not own are the things that I paint. It would be impractical to have and keep a cityscape or Mythical being for myself... therefore I "Paint To Own".

My process is simplistic. My canvases start as sketches that get blackened in like comic books using heavy black lines. Using acrylic paints and a scrubbing painting style I fill them in with color and highlights to form images that are as close to popping out of the painting as I can get.

Many of the images in my paintings have ties to literature or music and there are reasons that I chose these subjects, but I try not to tip my hat too obviously. The fun comes in hearing the interpretations of the work by those who view it. None are wrong... but often some are "kooky".

I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I do.