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Matthew Holden Bates
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"Ripped Sky" (Detail) by Matthew Holden Bates
"Ripped Sky" (Detail) Oil on Canvas / ©️Matthew Holden Bates, All Rights Reserved Following up on my last post "A Rip in Time" here is another painting from a long time ago, early 90's
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"A Rip In Time" (Detail) by Matthew Holden Bates
"A Rip In Time" (Detail) Oil on Canvas / ©️Matthew Holden Bates, All Rights Reserved This painting takes me all the way back to 1992, the first year I lived in Firenze after I was finished with
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"Days and Nights" (Detail) by Matthew Holden Bates
"Days and Nights" (Detail) Oil on Canvas / ©️Matthew Holden Bates, All Rights Reserved This painting goes back almost all of the way to my beginnings as a painter, early 90's, when I first moved
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Jupiter and Io (Detail) by Matthew Holden Bates
"Jupiter and Io" (Detail) Oil on Canvas / ©️Matthew Holden Bates, All Rights Reserved Following up on yesterday's Space Painting Post, here is another one featuring my Painting of Jupiter and
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Cat’s Eye Nebula (Detail) by Matthew Holden Bates
“Cat’s Eye Nebula” (Detail) Oil on Canvas / ©️Matthew Holden Bates, All Rights Reserved Today I am featuring one of my space paintings. I have always been a fan of science fiction, and space in particular.
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"Il Putto" (Detail)
"Il Putto" (Detail) Oil on Canvas / Private Collection / ©2019, Matthew Holden Bates, Firenze, Italia In Florence there are many statues that are notorious, the David by Michelangelo, Cellini's
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Girls of Montmartre (Detail)
Working on my theme of French inspiration, here is a detail from my original oil painting entitled “Girls of Montmartre” . I was collaborating with a gallery in Paris, so I went up there to visit, such
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Cannes Reflections (Detail) by Matthew Holden Bates
"Cannes Reflections" (Detail) oil on canvas / ©2019, Matthew Holden Bates, Firenze, Italia Here is the next "close up" in my latest series of oil paintings to share on nTopaz. This
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Nymph of the Fields (Detail) by Matthew Holden Bates
"Nymph of the Fields" (Detail) ©2019, Matthew Holden Bates, Firenze, Italia Hey everybody! Glad to be back again today with another "close up" of one of my original oil paintings.
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Prague (Detail) by Matthew Holden Bates
"Prague" (Detail) Whenever I get a chance to travel, I tend to take a lot of pictures which then can become paintings when I get back to Firenze. This is one of them, taken on a weekend trip
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Uffizi View (Detail) by Matthew Holden Bates
“Uffizi View” (Detail) Oil on canvas / ©️Matthew Holden Bates, All Rights Reserved Here is the latest installment of my ‘up close and personal’ collection. Today I am featuring a painting that is a little
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Victorian Greenhouse (Detail) by Matthew Holden Bates
Victorian Greenhouse (detail) Original Oil Painting / Private Collection / ©️Matthew Holden Bates, All Rights Reserved Here is another close up of one of my oil paintings. This is one of my all time favorites.
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Campanile di Giotto (Detail) by Matthew Holden Bates
Here is the second installment of my up close look at my oil paintings. This is a classic, the painting took all Summer to paint back when I had an outdoor studio in my garden. The painting depicts the
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Purple Orchid (Detail)
Purple Orchid (Detail) Oil on Canvas ©️Matthew Holden Bates, All Rights Reserved I have decided to share some of the up close and nitty gritty parts of my paintings. This painting of purple orchids represents
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"Cavallino Rampante" by Matthew Holden Bates
Ferrari Scudo Mixed media painted directly on the wall of my studio in Firenze, Italy. ©️Matthew Holden Bates, All Rights Reserved Whenever I am working on a large painting project like my Duomo Prainting
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“Focus”
“Focus” Oil on Canvas ©️Matthew Holden Bates, All Rights Reserved I’ve decided to post some of my paintings up close and personal. I love macro photography, it gives me some amazing inspiration getting
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"Poppies on a Hill" by Matthew Holden Bates
"Poppies on a Hill" Oil on Canvas - 75cm 100cm - ©2017 Matthew Holden Bates, All Rights Reserved Here in Firenze Spring has sprung, with lots of rain so everything is growing like crazy. This
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Duomo Project / May 11th Quick Update
Duomo Project / Work in Progress Hey everybody! Just a quick update today, I started in on some of the intricate decoration, and I wanted to share it with you! I am beginning to see that I chose well which
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Buongiorno From Firenze
"The Duomo from the Fortezza del Basso" - Photograph, Digital - ©2019, Matthew Holden Bates I usually don't post photography, but this one is something that I want to see again. I took this photo
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Duomo Project / May 7th Update
Duomo Project / work in progress ©️Matthew Holden Bates Things have been busy here in Firenze, even though I have been painting a bit less than usual, I have been hard at work in the studio this week.
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