Matas.

The catalogue · 2022 to 2026

Fine art.

Original expressionist paintings, on canvas, oil and banknote, circling identity, corruption, money and the slow erosion of the self.

17 works 9 available London, UK
Work 016, Oil on canvas, 2026, by Matas
016

A personal piece about my relationship with my parents and the shape our family took. The large angry figure on the left is my mother, looming and controlling, her agenda pressed onto everything around her. In the middle is me, mouth shut and made small, muted and unhappy and trapped in the space between them. My father sits on the right, small because his role was small, present but rarely saying much or letting his own opinions or personality show. Each of them wears a tie, the quiet mark of a working class family and the strain of getting by.

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions
On request
Medium
Oil on canvas
Year
2026
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Work 015, Oil on canvas, 2026, by Matas
015

A collaborative piece made as the cover for an upcoming music album. The faces are painted in the pan African colours, worn openly across the head as a mark of identity and belonging. The red ground behind them holds the frustration of the circumstances, the weight of having to sit still and keep from escalating when met with discrimination, of not being free to react the way others can when their skin happens to be a different colour to yours.

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions
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Medium
Oil on canvas
Year
2026
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Work 014, Oil on canvas, 2026, by Matas
014

Carries the pride of the Lithuanian symbol, a reconnection with my roots and a wish to hold them close rather than hide them away. The red figure is my own consciousness pushing through the surface of the painting, looking out and seeing my country clearly, for everything it is and everything it has been. It is an act of belonging, claiming a heritage without shame and wearing it openly.

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions
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Medium
Oil on canvas
Year
2026
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Work 013, Oil on canvas, 2026, by Matas
013

A collaborative piece about the connection between a person and the natural world, the hair growing outward into the landscape as though the two were never truly apart. Behind the figure a ghostly presence follows close, the shape of a resentful and regretful past that refuses to be left behind. It lingers as a reminder that wherever you go, everything that came before you comes too.

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions
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Medium
Oil on canvas
Year
2026
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Work 012, Oil on canvas, 2025, by Matas
012

Speaks to being lost in an environment that never stops shifting, learning to adapt to everything around you without ever letting it swallow you whole. The vibrant yellow pulls the figure forward and holds it clear of the ground behind, a self that bends with its surroundings yet refuses to dissolve into them. It is a portrait of survival through adaptation, staying whole while everything else keeps changing.

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions
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Medium
Oil on canvas
Year
2025
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Work 011, Oil on canvas, 2025, by Matas
011

Traces the darker sides of unchecked infatuation and its power to overwhelm. What begins as desire turns corrosive, leaving behind unease and self-disgust. The imagery suggests a collapse of boundaries, where passion slips into obsession, and the self becomes both the object and victim of its own consumption.

Realised on canvas with oil paint.

Dimensions
60 × 60 cm
Medium
Oil on canvas
Year
2025
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Work 010, Acrylic on canvas, 2024, by Matas
010

Reflects on the corrosive nature of workplace culture and its capacity to consume. Rendered in a palette of muted, heavy tones, the painting evokes disquiet and dislocation. Two figures appear, half-recognisable, suggesting a fading sense of self and the difficulty of holding onto identity.

Realised on canvas, the background painted with a stiletto, roughly sketched over the figure behind, lines filled with a thick brush in an uneven manner.

Dimensions
100 × 150 cm
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Year
2024
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Work 009, Acrylic on bank note, 2024, by Matas
009

Revisits the themes of 003 on a more intimate scale, tracing the loss of innocence through the weight of monetary control. The composition evokes entrapment, as if boxed into a space where freedom is curtailed and value is measured against imposed systems. The smaller scale heightens the sense of confinement.

Realised on a 2-dollar note with acrylic paint.

Dimensions
15.5 × 6.6 cm
Medium
Acrylic on bank note
Year
2024
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Work 008, Acrylic on bank note, 2024, by Matas
008

Takes an ironic look at the relationship between Iran and America, an Iranian woman rendered onto an American banknote, the worth of one nation printed straight over the body of another. The cat sits beside her as the only real witness, watching the harm carried out in the name of that currency. She is given no eyes, stripped of sight and self, just another casualty counted among the many and quietly forgotten.

Realised on a 50-dollar note, sketching the lady with the cat in pencil and using acrylic for colour with black pen for the details.

Dimensions
15.1 × 6.5 cm
Medium
Acrylic on bank note
Year
2024
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Work 007, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 2024, by Matas
007

Exposes the predatory nature of the art market, where sales and collections reduce artworks to financial instruments. By confronting the practice of using art as a tax shelter, it challenges the systems that commodify creativity and strip it of intention. The piece resists absorption into that cycle, a refusal of industry norms.

Realised with deliberate resistance to display: constructed so that it cannot be hung on a wall. Its very form embodies defiance, rejecting the conventions of presentation and possession, using oil paint and fine powder.

Dimensions
30 × 30 cm
Medium
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Year
2024
Availability
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Work 006, Acrylic on canvas, 2023, by Matas
006

Questions the meaning of originality and the ownership of media. The idea itself was manifested through a text-to-image artificial intelligence; the painting unsettles traditional notions of authorship, prompting reflection on where a work truly begins, whether originality lies in conception, execution, or the technology that bridges the two.

Created from the inspiration of AI, realised on canvas with acrylic paint.

Dimensions
100 × 150 cm
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Year
2023
Availability
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Work 001.1, Acrylic on bank note, 2023, by Matas
001.1

Examines the weight of financial despair and the faceless entities that shape the daily struggle. The single banknote stands as both symbol and witness, its surface carrying the traces of blood-stained histories. The facelessness of government control emerges through the object, suggesting how structures of authority extend quietly into every corner of life.

Realised on a $5 bill, with acrylic as the base for the face and an acrylic marker for the details and outline.

Dimensions
15.6 × 6.6 cm
Medium
Acrylic on bank note
Year
2023
Availability
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Work 005, Oil on canvas, 2022, by Matas
005

Considers the significance of anonymity within a turbulent political landscape. Where authority asserts dominance, the absence of identity becomes a form of protection and resistance. The faceless presence hints at both vulnerability and strength, suggesting how concealment can serve as survival in the face of suppression.

Realised on canvas with oil paint.

Dimensions
100 × 150 cm
Medium
Oil on canvas
Year
2022
Availability
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Work 004, Acrylic on canvas, 2022, by Matas
004

Looks at the way loneliness can swell until it fills an entire life. The figure becomes both vessel and source, solitude pushing outward and spilling past the boundaries of the self, until the feeling is no longer held within one person but saturates everything around them. Where solitude usually pulls a person inward, here it turns out and grows vast enough to reshape the whole space it lives in.

Realised on canvas with acrylic paint.

Dimensions
50 × 50 cm
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Year
2022
Availability
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Work 003, Acrylic on canvas, 2022, by Matas
003

Explores the fragile essence of innocence and its gradual erosion through external influences. The central disfigured eyes symbolise purity, set within a vast expanse of blue that embodies an ocean of untainted innocence. The darker shades of blue and black signify the pervasive forces of corruption, infiltrating and intertwining with innocence, subtly seeping beneath the surface.

Realised on canvas with acrylic paint, starting the base with a light sketch of the flow with acrylic markers, measuring the correct positioning for the disfigured eyes in the middle.

Dimensions
100 × 150 cm
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Year
2022
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Work 002, Acrylic on canvas, 2022, by Matas
002

Sinks into the isolation and loneliness that come from being left alone with yourself for too long. The deep blue spreads across the canvas as an ocean of solitude, cold and boundless, holding the figure apart from the world. Within it the face begins to come undone, tracing a slow descent into madness as the mind, starved of anyone else, quietly turns in on itself.

Realised on canvas with acrylic paint.

Dimensions
50 × 70 cm
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Year
2022
Availability
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Work 001, Acrylic on canvas, 2022, by Matas
001

Confronts the absence of genuine, authentic purpose, often mistaken for the pursuit of wealth and power. It explores the detrimental effects of losing yourself in that pursuit, leading to a loss of identity.

Realised on canvas with spray acrylic as base and acrylic pen for outline.

Dimensions
100 × 150 cm
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Year
2022
Availability
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