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​​Meet the Artist Behind Curated Drawings. 
 

Patrick Matthews, from Manchester, UK, is an award-winning contemporary British artist whose practice transforms drawing into a meditative exploration of form, presence, and meaning. His work has been exhibited in the UK, Europe, and South America. Based in Amsterdam, he creates works on paper that explore how material and space can give shape to states of being—reflective, fragile, and enduring all at once.​

'He approaches each piece as a sculptural act'

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​​His journey began with a fascination for the physical language of sculpture and performance, leading him to study at the Hochschule der Künste (HDK) in Berlin, and the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. This diverse foundation informs a visual language that merges the tactile awareness of sculpture with the delicacy of drawing, resulting in art that feels both grounded and transcendent.​​​​​​​

Process and Practice

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Although drawing remains the heart of his work, Matthews approaches each piece as a sculptural act. He begins with free, gestural lines—marks of instinct and rhythm—that gradually coalesce into forms echoing human presence. The process is one of discovery rather than design; each drawing unfolds as something revealed rather than constructed.

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Working primarily with graphite, ink, and charcoal, he embraces tension—the push and pull between solidity and space, line and void. In doing so, he reminds viewers of what the physicist and the mystic have long known: that matter and emptiness coexist. Every mark becomes a meditation on transformation, as though each line were listening for silence in its own trace.

Themes of Reflection

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Central to Matthews’s art are themes of transformation, stillness, and the unseen forces that shape human experience. His figures hover between becoming and dissolving, echoing the Heart Sutra’s timeless idea that “form is emptiness, and emptiness is form.” By balancing fragility with endurance, his drawings invite viewers to look not only at form—but through it—toward a deeper awareness of presence.

'The process is one of discovery rather than design; each drawing unfolds as something revealed rather than constructed'

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