Matt Higgins Landscape Paintings

This painting was created from a photograph taken during a snowy weekend at the artist’s mother-in-law’s home in New York. A single evergreen stands in a quiet, snow-covered yard, se...

Painted plein air in oil on panel, this work captures the landscape of the artist’s childhood home, rendered directly from life. The immediacy of outdoor observation is evident in th...

This painting was constructed using a number of attached surfaces including canvas, muslin and plastic debris. Attaching strips of canvas allows me to recycle used material into new...

In this abstract landscape painting, a captivating scene unfolds on a canvas brought to life by layers of oil paint. Against a deep black background, a juxtaposition of elements emer...

A joyful sunflower field comes to life in this 11x14" acrylic painting on wood panel. Bold yellow blooms rise against a vivid blue sky, their dark centers and expressive brushstrokes...

This is the fourth and most ambitious Paradise painting in this series. The series began in 2022 and has continued to evolve. This new oil painting carries a heightened sense of dept...

This series began in 2022 and has continued to evolve. These new oil paintings carry a heightened sense of depth and material presence, offering a particularly focused expression of ...

Horizon presents a distilled landscape reduced to its essential elements: sky, land, and sun. Broad horizontal fields of saturated blue and red meet in a soft, wavering line, suggest...

This painting is part of the Slow Down series, which began in 2021 and remains ongoing. It features a serene landscape with a palm tree, gentle waves, and a crescent moon. At the top...

Visions of the Promised Land is built through a slow accumulation of paint, where each layer records a moment of looking, revising, and returning. Though intimate in scale, the work ...

Painted using a combination of imagination and photographic reference, this piece shows a barren, dreamy desert landscape a theme the artist uses in much of his work. Painted with ac...

Path to the River is an energetic landscape painting that explores an abstracted interpretation of a river and surrounding trees. Painted from imagination while remaining rooted in t...

Summer Horizon is a contemporary abstract landscape painting that uses acrylic paint to stain the canvas and form large areas of color and shape. The open area of blue brings to min...

This painting was created using layered washes of black acrylic as a backdrop, with bold applications of oil paint and oil sticks worked energetically across the surface. It depicts ...

This painting is part of the artists' Paradise series, an ongoing project that began in 2021. Several works from the series were recently exhibited during Miami Art Week 2024 in collaboration with the artist's gallery. Created with acrylic paint on a custom wood panel, the piece employs a palette of black and tan to depict a dynamic landscape rich with energy and expressive language. A recurring motif in the series, this painting features a palm tree, waves, and clouds. The palm tree—a...

This vibrant painting captures an abstracted seascape at sunset, rendered with bold, impasto brushstrokes and vivid, contrasting colors. The scene features two sailboats gliding acro...

Excerpt from the Palm series 2023 - Present The artworks presented here depict palm-like plants in mostly nocturnal and enigmatic settings, often against mountainous backdrops and o...

Scorched shows and intensely heated landscape with the sun hovering overhead. Plant life struggles to stay alive in this hot climate and the plants he...

It may be hard to believe, but Summer Morning began as a flurry of overlapping text and expressive black-and-white oil paint. Seeking solace amidst the chaos of emotive words, Higgin...

This piece was created with generous brushstrokes of oil paint, loosely referencing a desert landscape. The title Strange Terrain comes from the nature of the painting being in an i...

Cosmic Blossoms is a vibrant and expressive oil painting that continues the artist’s ongoing exploration of floral, plant life and landscape motifs set against surreal, dreamlike lan...

The composition of this painting is marked by a dynamic interplay between the foreground and the background. At the forefront, a lush tropical plant commands attention. Its sinuous v...