Matthew McClosky Fine Art
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Prices for original paintings are as listed.  All paintings are oil on stretched canvas unless otherwise listed. 
Pricing for prints varies depending on material and size. See Giclée Prints.
To purchase an original or order a print, please Contact me at mattjazz123@gmail.com 
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Lake Chelan  Fire"y" Sunset.  $800
Oil on cradled birch panel with stained finished edges ready to hang.    the reference photo i based this on i took last summer 2 days after last years big fire started on lake Chelan which made the sunset colors amazing.  I used only natural bristle brushes for this piece and built up the sky slowly in at least 8 separate layers. This one changes dramatically in different ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssdddddddddddddddddddddddddddlight adding to its sense of lifesd
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Lake Annette trail waterfall. $800
18x24 oil on cradled birch panel with stained and finished gallery depth cradle ready to hang. 
this painting was an experiment with applying paint quickly, after a great deal of careful preparation.  to capture some of the energy motion and  sound this amazing place has.  Not far from the trailhead this waterfall was at peak flow in the early spring.  the lake was still frozen.   



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Lake Anette Cascades 10x10in oil on birch.  $350
more detailed than its larger brother above I really tried to capture the swirling motion  of the water, the shapes of the standing waves and transparent sheets of water over stone. 
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Looking up at the arboretum.  $300
Sunset light catching a great spiral trunked tree at the Seattle arboretum. 


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Palouse Wheat fields with Distant ravines. $400
​ OIl on board painted exclusively with natural bristle brushes which make wonderful lined textures that accentuate each brushstroke. 

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10x10 $300 SOLD Experiments in texture. to to capture the feeling of heavy snow fall.
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Heavy snow on the pass. 18x24 Oil on cradlesdbirch panel.$800.
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Into the out of. 18x24in Oil on cradled birch panel with stained edges. Most recent addition to my series on Escalante National Monument in Southern Utah. The Whole area is utterly bizarre and otherworldly. I took the photo this painting in based on through the dashboard of a moving RV.
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8x24 oil on cradled birch panel. $900 Tall grasses blowing in the wind in the Palouse region of eastern Washington. based on a photo taken out the window of a moving RV. the light was amazing that day with distant thunderstorms making awesome skies.
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Van Gogh does the PCT 18x24in cradled birch panel. $700 This is an unusual one for me in that its purely based on my imagination informed by many years of hiking in the cascades beginning as soon as I could walk. It is also an experiment with a technique I used Sumi ink for the background and layered transparent oils over it leaving the black showing through.
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Rolling Wheat fields the Palouse. This area or eastern Washington was formed by silt blown off glaciers accumulating over millennia resulting in these wonderfully bizarre dune like forms.  This Painting is 18x24, oil on cradled solid birch panel. 
$1,200  SOLD
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Thunderstorms over wheat fields in the Palouse
I recently Spent several days In Eastern Washington near Palouse Falls.  Distant thunderstorms created incredible constantly changing light for most of the drive really adding the drama to an already fascinating landscape. 
This Piece is 18x24 on solid birch cradled panel.  I stained the 1 1/2 inch edges a light pecan color and and finished it them with Spar Varnish. 
$1,200.  SOLD

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Fall colors along a Path in Volunteer Park just north of the Asian Art Museum and the big metal doughnut. 
​$!000
18x24in.  On cradled birch panel with 1 1/2in edges stained and than finished with spar varnish.
Highly textured with raised impasto brush stokes throughout.  I created this entire painting with 1 medium small dagger brush.  This gives all the raised brushstrokes a consistancy that really helps unify the piece. 
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Phillips Arch in Escalante National Monument

Phillips Arch, Escalante National Monument. 
oil on canvas. 18x24in
 $1000. oil on canvas.
​ Created using with many layers made  transparent with gel medium. This allows the  orange background to show through.   Many people have painted the southwest, but nearly everyone paints the patterns of light on the rocks and ignores the complicated crisscrossing in the rocks themselves.  I think these patterns are an essential part of the beauty of the place so I experimented with different techniques until I found a way to accurately depict them. There are up to 6 transparent layers in places. 


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Magic Gateway.  Small Arch in Cayote Gulch. Escalante National Monument.  18x25 oil on birch panel $800
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​ Short hike south  of Jacob Hamblin Arch (painting below).
18x24in oil on  cradled birch panel. I stained the edges of the panel a light pecan and than finished them with spar varnish. 

 I was fascinated by interesting shape the echoes the curve of the stream, and the abrupt light change on the other side that made it feel like a  magic portal.  

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Jacob Hamblin
Jacob Hamblin Arch 3.  18x24in.  Oil on Canvas.
Original Available $1000 
Prints Available. 
​This is the view from "Trail" nto Cayote Gulch. Trail in this case meaning near cliff  face I descended carefully holding onto a rope. I took the reference image for this painting with my cellphone holding onto the rope with my other hand trying really hard not to drop it.  Its hard to get a feeling for how big this arch is from a photo, its enormous.  Conveniently their was a hiker passing by.  He is the tiny speck through the arch next to the tree in the middle of the arch. 
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Jacob Hamblin Arch 2. 18x24in.
​Original Currently Available through the Berkano Gallery 
Prints Available Here.
​Jacob Hamblin Arch (Painting Above) is in bottom right corner. This view is from a bend in the river where the cliff was undercut creating this amazing overarching cave.  
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Jacob Hamblin Arch. 18x24in. Price $800 SOLD 
Prints available.
This Arch is mind bogglingly big. I think it would be one of the most well known in the southwest if you didn't have to rent a 4x4 and drive 50 miles down a beat up washboarded dirt road, navigate across sand and rock hiking without a trail, and then climb down a  near vertical face holding onto a rope on a to get there.  For perspective the tiny speck on the rock in the middle of the steam is my father and those are full grown trees about 80 feet tall. 
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18x24 oil on cradled birch panel.  1 1/2in reddish brown stained wood edges.  
I painted this scene because I was fascinated by the cracks on the wall of the reservoir and the patterns they made reflected on the water.  This combined with the glowing sunset light captures an unusual angle on a well known Seattle location.  
Original Available $800
Prints available. 


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  • Process
  • Contact
  • Events
  • Giclée Prints
  • Paintings
    • Japanese Garden Portland
    • Flowers
    • Mountains
    • Trees
    • Other Subjects
    • New Paintings!