Born in Wales in 1964, Maggie Matthews moved to west Cornwall in the late 1980’s and has since gained recognition as one of Cornwall’s leading abstract painters. In addition to exhibiting in Cornwall, her work has been shown at The City Gallery, The Air Gallery and Thompson’s Gallery in London and in 1999 she was invited to exhibit in America on Nantucket Island and also the following year in the New York exhibition ‘White Columns’ which toured the USA. She continues to draw inspiration from the landscape around her, paring down observational drawings in the studio and translating them into colour and abstraction.