For much of his career, Canadian artist Matthew Schofield has painted from vintage photographs—often producing paintings at the same small, intimate scale of the snapshots themselves.
Here, in a Toronto studio visit with Canadian Art, Schofield explains what appeals to him about this practice.
“I think that’s the nice thing about all this process,” Schofield says, “is there’s a humanity to it—there’s a touch, a physicality to the person holding the camera, to the person standing in front of the camera, to the person painting the picture, to the decisions being made.”
