Ingrid Matthews

"Like music, art infuses a space with energy and feeling, putting us in touch with our humanity and reminding us that there is always a deeper level of experience."

Ingrid Matthews makes art to absorb the mind and invite the viewer into contemplation, bathing in luminous color as though immersed in music. Inspired by artists like Helen Frankenthaler and Mark Rothko, she loves to explore the ever-shifting emotional atmosphere in which we live, using abstract visual language.

Very thin layers of paint, subtractive as well as additive techniques, and both controlled and uncontrolled mark-making characterize her process as she works to create nuance and depth, probing the ways in which color, light and form can evoke emotional experience.

A musician as well as a painter, Ingrid spent the first part of her professional life performing and recording extensively as a violinist while amassing a deep and eclectic education in the visual arts. She is the featured artist for a 2019 episode of Commissioned, The Design Network’s documentary series about art and artists.