Shweta Matai

From Assam, Northeast India / Works in Los Angeles, California

BIO

Shweta Matai is a self taught painter who was born into a family of artists and creatives. Her artistic practice is centered on contemporary realism, often depicting food, still life, and nature - Shweta is also inspired by the great masters and the Dutch golden age of painting.

My favorite quote is by Claude Monet when he says “Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love!” This captures the essence of why I paint – it’s to record the fleeting moment of joy at the sight of nature and color- there is beauty everywhere and I am on a mission to take it from “reel” to “real-like” one oil painting at a time!