Recent Works
What if the buildings we remember are really portraits of ourselves? Distorting ingrained, iconic forms, these paintings explore the shifting relationship between the places we inhabit and the lives we imagine beyond them. Sitting between material reality and emotional isolation, these works invite consideration of the quiet and unstable equilibrium where solitude, inheritance, and hope coexist.
First Light 14" x17"
2026 · 14 x 17 inches · Acrylic on canvas
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Resilience and courage require self-reflection, and acknowledgement of what cannot be controlled. Finding joy requires the self-discipline to set aside judgment and embrace desires you share with others. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
Preacher's Ladder 14" x 17"
2026 · 14 x 17 inches · Acrylic on canvas
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We all have family secrets. The best ones are give depth and shade to past generations, turning them from stoic black and white photos, to living human beings with passions and tales to tell. There is a kind of peace in gaining the perspective that sometimes that even the perfect people have faults and what felt like shame was really the irony of the self-righteous simply being human Preacher's Ladder is an acrylic 14" x 18" contemporary painting on canvas. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
South Franklin 16" x 16"
2026 · 16 x 16 inches · Acrylic on canvas
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Home is where children play and roses bloom. Where a candle keeps silent vigil and the family keeps the home fires tended in anticipation of an absent love’s safe return. We all have a person definition of what "home" means, memories of moments shared with loved ones, the absence of things desired. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
Hung out to dry 16" x 16"
2026 · 16 x 16 inches · Acrylic on canvas
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After the bloom, comes the harvest, Tied and pinned to a line and left on their own to face the elements, their essences concentrates in darkness. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
Float 10" x 12"
2026 · 12 x 12 inches · Acrylic on canvas
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In the heat of summer, drifting, suspended, unconnected from time. Chased by the sun into the pool until the even that will that gives way to heat of the sun. Shade. And still air. Childhoods spent in the dappled light, cool water, and quiet places. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
Free Range 14" x17"
2026 · 14 x17 inches · Acrylic on canvas
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The oldest lessons are the hardest to learn. Who's guarding the hens? Where are your eggs? Overhead, watchful eyes see if you yet understand the wisdom of Aesop. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
Tethered Heaart 11" x15"
2026 · 11 x 15 inches · Acrylic on canvas
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Between the past, well known and comfortable, and the future, full of possibilities and risks, we have all found ourselves suspended in that moment of choice. That liminal space in which we both stay and leave, where we retain what we have and we let it go. Keeping what we know and pursuing what we desire. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
Kinfolk 30" x24"
2025 · 30 x 24 inches · Acrylic on canvas
Through restrained lines, softened surfaces, and a spacious atmospheric field, this work explores the unseen frameworks inherited and inhabited: histories, expectations, attachments, and absences that quietly shape identity. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
It was one night 30" x 30"
2025 · 30 x 30 inches · Acrylic on canvas
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Sunrise and sunset appear to burn simultaneously, in uneasy space between memory, silence, and implication, a dividing plane between promise and aftermath. Beauty, secrecy, and emotional consequence coexist A luminous green field hints at possibility. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway. Please contact us for pricing and availability.
Cut the tangled strings 30" x 24"
2025 · 30 x 24 inches · Acrylic on canvas
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In the space between attachment and release, anchored by delicate constellations, what remains when identity is stripped of weight, expectation, and enclosure? Transformation framed not as escape, but a quieter more nuanced act of illumination; connections yet endure while burdens fall away. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
Ascension 24" 30"
2024 · 24 X 36 inches · Acrylic on canvas
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A meditation on personal transformation, memory, and emotional gravity. Transcendence, vulnerability, and the emotional systems we carry are invitations to the resolution. Tethered above the dark earth, lifted from the ordinary the shadow is both intimate and expansive, balancing optimism with the persistent pull of what remains below; memories of absence and origin. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
The Alembic of the Three Kingdoms 60" x 36"
2025 · 60 x 36 inches · Acrylic on canvas
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Practitioners of alchemy separated acids, alkalis, and ethereal oils from the three natural realms—mineral, vegetable, and animal, to turn toxins into a benison. This is a powerful meditation on identity, transformation, and the coexistence of multiple conditions of selfhood held in unstable equilibrium. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
Love is a ladder 24" x 36"
2025 · 24 x 26 · Acrylic on canvas
The distance between the lives imagined and the lives we inhabit occupy the same space as our image in a mirror. They both co-exist within different conditions of light, gravity, and orientation. Ladders suggesting both ascent and decent are fragile in these works, acts of connection to the space between loss and renewal, grounding and transcendence, and simply living and being being loved. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
The Ravens 12" x 10"
2026 · 12 x 10 inches · Acrylic on canvas
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Blending folk imagery with restrained color, textured surfaces, and sparse architectural forms, this work balance support and instability. This visually quiet yet emotionally persistent work speaks of transformation, and the choices we aspire to make. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
What lies beneath 36" x 28"
2026 · 36 x 28 inches · Acrylic on canvas
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Exposing unseen foundations and invisible tensions that exist below the surface of everyday life, this work blends folk-inspired imagery with restrained color and textured surfaces. Creating a feeling that is both familiar and unsettled, as though reconstructed from fragments of a memory. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.
Yellow Barn 36" x 28"
2026 · 36 x 28 inches · Acrylic on canvas
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How fragile is moment between endurance and transformation? Between exposure and shelter? Holding both the outward self and the inner life within. At the center of the composition, a single ladder connects these two planes suggesting possibility without certainty: the decision to begin. Original acrylic painting by Seattle artist Matthew Holloway.