Matthew Draper
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Matthew Draper's stunning pastel works have garnered him a dedicated worldwide following and won him many awards. His work is in many private and public collections worldwide.
He writes, "My work is made with an intense and energetic immediacy, working instinctively rather than methodically, keeping me physically and emotionally involved in the process. I crush soft pastel in my hands rubbing the dust into the paper in wide sweeps of colour gradually manipulating the material to build up a thick layered surface using the ball of my thumb or the heal of my hand.
EDUCATION
1973 Born in Stone, Staffordshire
1991–1992 Walsall College of Art
1992–1995 Falmouth College of Arts BA (Hons) Fine Art
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2019 Scottish Arts Club Award, SSA, Edinburgh
2018 Elected Professional member SSA
2018 Royal Tallens Rembrandt Award, The Pastel Society Mall Galleries, London
2016 The Artist’s Magazine Award, Pastel Society, Mall Galleries London.
2016 Charles Pears Award, Royal Society of Marine Artists, Mall Galleries, London
2016 Elected Professional Member VAS.
2015 Henry Roche Award, Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London
2013 Regional Prize, National Open Art Competition, Chichester
2012 Pan Pastels Award, Pastel Society, Mall Galleries London
2011 Visitors Choice Award, National Art Open Exhibition, Chichester
2011 Regional Prize, National Open art exhibition, Chichester
2011 Elected member of The Pastel Society UK, Federation of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London
2010 City of Glasgow Prize, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
2010 Buzzacot Award, Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London
2010 Annie Longley memorial Award, Pastel society, Mall galleries London
2010 Connell and Connell prize, Scottish Society of artists, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2009 Scottish Gallery Award, Visual Arts Scotland, City Arts Centre Edinburgh
2008 Shell Premier Award, Aberdeen Artists, Aberdeen Museum and Art Gallery
2007 Chairman’s Purchase prize, Discerning Eye Exhibition, London
2007 Anthony J Lester art Critic Award, Pastel Society, Mall Galleries London
2006 John Murray Thomson Award, Royal Scottish Academy
2006 Cross Gate Gallery Award, Kentucky USA Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London
2004 Contemporary Fine Art Gallery Award, Paisley Art Institute
2004 Most popular work in the exhibition, Hunting Art Prize
2002 City of Glasgow Prize, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
2001 Commendation, Aberdeen Artists
2000 Alexander Graham Munro Travel Award, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 ‘Sound Of Raasay’, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2018 ‘Sublime Adventures’, Brown’s Gallery, Tain
2017 ‘Small Works’ Fidra Fine Art, North Berwick
2016 ‘Amongst The Clouds’ Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2015 ‘From Metropolis to Wilderness, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro
2014 ‘Eilean a Cheo’, Open eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2013 ‘Northern Light’, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro
2012 ‘Time Lapse , Open Eye gallery, Edinburgh
2011 ‘New Pastels’, Beaux Arts, Bath
2010 ‘Festival Exhibition’, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2009 ‘Nocturnes’ Beaux Arts, Bath
2009 ‘In Series’, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro
2008 ‘Luminism’, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2007 ‘January Light’, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall
2006 ‘Time and Place’, Beaux Arts, Bath
2006 ‘Seven Hills’ The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2005 ‘Nostalgia’, lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall
2004 ‘Panorama’ Beaux Arts, Bath
2004 ‘Old Town’, The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2002 ‘Atmosphere and Twilight’, The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2000 ‘Night Life’, The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
1999 The Reynolds Gallery, Edinburgh
Collections
Bank of Scotland.
City of Edinburgh, City Art Centre, Jean F Watson Bequest Fund
Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery, Kelvingrove Glasgow
Paintings in Hospitals Scotland
Premier Property Group, Edinburgh
Morton Frazer Solicitors, Edinburgh
Private Collections; Australia, New Zealand, Canada Europe and the USA
Commissioned by The Morton Street Gallery, London for the Caledonia Hotel, Edinburgh