Pigs Alley Gallery

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MEET ARTIST & OWNER MAURA MATTHEWS

Hello! I'm Maura - an artist and art educator. I've been painting since high school, when I first learned about color, composition and contrast from my teacher Walt Bartman. For me paintings are puzzles to be solved and those three components keep me plugging away!

I sell original and commissioned oil paintings, exhibit my work at local businesses and lead painting classes for children and adults. You can find me painting and teaching at the Pigs Alley Gallery, named for the street in Fairmount where I once lived. 


I love exploring, noticing and creating paths for the eyes with patches of paint. I find great joy in painting quickly and expressively with my palette knife and want my art to convey the energy and movement that went into making it. Vibrant and textured, my oil paintings celebrate the contrasts that make the world beautiful to me.


Recent honors include Best in Show at the 2024 and 2023 Chestnut Hill (CH) Fall for the Arts Festivals, Best Landscape in the 2024 Sketch Club (PSC) Art of the Flower Show, First Place in Oils/Acrylics at the 2022 CH Fall for the Arts Festival, Best Portrait in the 2022 PSC Small Oils Show and Best Still Life in the 2021 PSC Art of the Flower Show.

PAINTINGS ON VIEW

Gallery open by chance and by appointment.


Contact us to inquire about purchasing a painting or to schedule a gallery visit.   


My work is also on view:

@ Chestnut Hill Dental

@ Philadelphia Dance Theater

@ Tamarindo's

ORIGINAL OIL PAINTINGS

PHILADELPHIA

LOVE III, 16x20, $500

    WISSAHICKON

    Muted Morning, 14x11, $375

      SEASIDE

      You and Me, 9x12, $300

        COUNTRYSIDE

        Maple Acres, 16x20, $500

          SUBURBAN LIFE

          Morning Light, 18x24, $500

            GARDENS

            Exploring Longwood, 10x8, $250

              BIRDS

              Robin, 5x7, $150

                TRAVEL - NEAR

                Rockefeller Center, 12x12, $350

                  TRAVEL - FAR

                  Delicate Arch, 16x20, $500

                    ARCHIVE

                    Valley Green, 24x18, SOLD

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