MATTHIAS LUPRI

THE need to create is something deep within Matthias Lupri’s soul. A musician for more than 30 years, that need was satisfied through composing, recording and touring. But 10 years ago, he left that world and began to explore another: one filled with color and texture and expression that comes to life on canvas.

“I have always been artistic in various ways and see the world and myself through that interesting lens,” says Lupri, who uses a palette knife and mixed media to achieve thick texture and nuance in his work. “Becoming a painter after being a musician was the most amazing, organic, natural transition.”

As a creative, Lupri naturally sees the intrinsic need that all humans have for art, in whatever form it may speak to them.

“I love the manner in which artistic human beings can dig so deep within themselves and pull things out they never could really imagine on the surface, and then relay it into an art form,” he says. “The interpretation is so beautiful and unique to every individual.”

Lupri’s works are largely abstract expressionist and nonrepresentational, bold in color, texture and strokes as well as in their symbolism or minimalism. He is represented by Simpatico Gallery in Boston and Charleston.

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