About:

Matthew Walton (b. 1996, UK) is a Toronto-based artist. His mixed-media work (acrylic, watercolour, pastel and pencil on paper) highlights the quiet charm of everyday queerness, reimagining mundane moments through a vibrant technicolour lens. Inspired by the human form and informed by a graphic sensibility, Walton crafts bold, figurative compositions that merge geometric precision with fluid expressiveness.

Walton’s vignettes invite viewers into intimate, relatable scenes that blur the line between “public” and “private” space, and it is within this liminal realm that his Cubist-coded figures live, uninhibited. Drawing from his background in animation, Walton utilizes body language as a narrative device, and by embracing tell-tale gestures and mannerisms once repressed, Walton’s work celebrates the freedom of authentic self-expression.