MATT HOUSTON

"My creations are the result of a combination of art and design; utmost care for details, painstaking search for the harmony of shapes and poetic style characterize my projects. One of my work’s priorities is the search for the expressive language of objects, which may fascinate people by evoking emotions."

 So, I started using the title "Artist" as to what I do over 3 years ago. I was kind of reluctant to use the title at first when people ask "what do you do".  The bigger question is why do I do it 'art" and were does this "art" come from. First off I have always been a repurposer, going back to the early 60's as a youth I wanted to "make" things. My first real exposure to what I do was in 8th grade art class, it was a struggle. In high school art class I found my stride and learned some skills in design and ceramics. My early 1st round of college (1975) at MWSC introduced me to Mr Jim Estes and the ceramics course taught in a converted 1950's basement house. I grew artistically during this period being surrounded by what I perceived at the time as way more talented people than me.

 This is the part of the story that is about, well life. After several ceramics courses at MWSC I started down the road of provide for the family. I gravitated toward occupations revolving around the making of something. Several decades latter (5) I picked back up with the creative making of stuff right before the pandemic in 2020.

 Well here we are, I retired in 2023 and I am now a full time artist. My work is all about progressions in style and form. I use color, a lot of color. Visually I make complex, engaging pieces that incorporate movement, light reflection, and texture of course all of this is original work. Everything I create, begins with me wanting something it could be tools to make stuff or simply that I want beautiful things around me. I'm prolific in my output and I'm driven to create more and strive to push the progression in my work.

So, I'm not always the smart one, I have been doing "art" for a long time. This current run of me doing Matt "stuff" is going on 4 years now. I just realized that the individual parts of the process of creating brings untold amounts of joy into my life. Each part of the process is unique and controlled by me and when an idea is formalized into a solid tangible object that did not exist before I am very happy