Matthew Allton

About Matthew Allton

I am a largely self taught fine artist and photographer.

My early work concentrated on representing landscapes, predominantly using watercolours. These paintings were exhibited and sold at craft fairs and art shops throughout the Midlands.

After attending evening life drawing classes for several years at FE colleges in Nuneaton and Coventry, where I obtained a City and Guilds in Life Drawing, I had a shift in focus to explorations of the human figure. My figurative fine art works are produced using a variety of media from pencil and charcoal drawings, through to pastel, acrylic and oil paintings.

In my youth I had a keen interest in taking and developing my own photos from 35mm film - I'm THAT old!. I then moved to a digital SLR camera and since then advancements in digital photography on phones means that my interest in photography has become ever easier to explore. I am constantly caturing parts of the world around me that I find beautiful or intesting. Photography of the human form began purely as a means of capturing reference material for paintings, but I found the results had a power and beauty of their own, and they now hold an important place in my body of work.

I am a member of the Coventry and Warwickshire Society of Artists (CWSA) and the Leamington Studio Artists (LSA)

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Exhibitions

August 31st to 2nd September 2024
"31st Dame Catherine Arts Summer Exhibition"
Exhibiting in the online exhibition only.

August 3rd and 4th 2024
"CWSA Weekend Exhibition at Burton Green Village Hall"
Red Ln, Burton Green, Kenilworth CV8 1PF

June 29th and 30th 2024
"CWSA Weekend Exhibition at The Glasshouse"
Jephson Gardens, Newbold Terrace, Leamington Spa CV32 4ER

April 21st 2024
"CWSA Exhibition at the Almanack"
The Almanack, Abbey End North, Kenilworth, CV8 1QJ

February 11th 2024 - March 10th 2024
"Desire"
Leamington Studio Artists - Art Room, 5 Satchwell Court, Leamington Spa

February 18th 2024 (12:00 - 16:00)
"Lazy Sunday Club - Artists and Makers Market"
LTB Showrooms, 1 Warwick Row, Coventry, CV1 1EX

January 15th 2024 - February 10th 2024
"Transformation"
Leamington Studio Artists - Art Room, 5 Satchwell Court, Leamington Spa

December 8th 2018 - February 24th 2019
"Coventry Open 2018"
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry

May 31st - June 10th 2018
"CWSA 106th Annual Exhibition"
Leamington Studio Artists,
East Lodge
Willes Road
Royal Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV32 4ER

July 6th - August 4th 2016
Leamington Studio Artists Exhibition
East Lodge
Willes Road
Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV32 4ER

Ongoing - Prints and Greetings Cards
Hillbillies,
3, Court Street,
Leamington Spa,
CV31 1NH

May 27th - June 14th 2016
"CWSA 104th Annual Exhibition"
Deasil Art Gallery,
The Warehouse
44 Oxford Street
Royal Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV32 4RA

April 16th - 17th 2016
"Burton Green Village Hall Exhibition"
The Village Hall,
Hodgetts Lane,
Burton Green

November 13th - November 15th 2015
"Art at Kenilworth - Rotary Club Exhibition"
Holiday Inn,
Abbey End,
Kenilworth

October 17th - November 1st 2015
"Coventry Arts Consortium Annual Exhibition"
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry

October 22nd - November 20th 2011
"Coventry Arts Consortium Annual Exhibition"
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry

May 2011
"CWSA Annual Exhibition 2011"
Gallery 2, Solihull Gallery, Solihull Central Library & Arts Complex

September 15th - October 20th 2010
"Coventry Arts Consortium Annual Exhibition"
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry

May 4th - 15th 2010: "Perspectives"
The Lock Gallery
The Canal Basin, Coventry

May 25th - June 9th 2007: "Patterns in Life"
Jane Powell Art Studio
16 High Street, Kenilworth, Warwickshire

May 8th - June 4th 2007: "Out of the Shadows"
Birmingham REP Theatre
The Foyer, Centenary Square, Birmingham.