Provenance:

Brooker Gallery, Wellington

Fletcher Trust Collection

Since graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts at Auckland University in 1981, Mathieson has been exhibiting most regularly, slowly developing her technique, based on the pre 1965 European abstract movement, an offshoot of which became the New York Abstract Expressionist school.

Always striving to be more expressive than purely decorative but still aiming to create a thing of beauty before anything else.

I also like to juxtapose colours so that they resonate off the surface, and for each colour to have a voice. Someone asked me once "Do your colours sing?" I was able to truthfully answer yes and have been a slave to that creed ever since, not only from the point of view of the resonance of each colour but from the way in which the paint is applied to the support structure. I try to show my life force in every stroke. CHRISTINE MATHIESON