Wall Mural based on the PHUMC Rose Window including portraits of PHUMC Choir Members
Matt McLoud (b. 1965), Artist
Acrylic on Canvas, mounted on Wall
2007
Matt McLoud is a painter, sculptor and muralist, specializing in fine art for residential, commercial and public art projects. Matt graduated from SMU in Dallas in 1987. After
a fifteen-year career in the advertising, Matt became a full-time artist. He has worked at developing his bold, vibrant style – what he calls Energetic Color. McLeod’s Energetic Color is included in several private and corporate collections across the US and has brought significant recognition, including pieces in the Delta Exhibition at the Arkansas Arts Center (now the Arkansas Museum of Fine Art) and a painting on the front cover of the first Arkansas Artists Calendar, created by The Arkansas Governor’s Mansion Association.
“Art, as a creative, is about the connection with the viewer. I find a lot of creativity in turning the viewer’s attention to something that might have otherwise gone unnoticed,” says McLeod. “I feel like it’s my job as an artist to connect with viewers almost like a storyteller does with an audience. My job is to find a scene I experience: a stream, a dirt road, whatever it is; and treat it like an important moment in a visual story. It’s almost like taking a single frame from a movie – the frame is always right before, or right after the climax scene – and elevating it by reconstructing the scene with strong attention to light and color. I try to show you the scene’s importance, by deconstructing the scene visually and reconstructing it in an amplified way. If I can get you to notice the beauty of something that you otherwise wouldn’t have taken the time to notice, then we have made a connection.”
Matt has designed and created ten murals in Central Arkansas. Matt lives and paints in Little Rock, Arkansas.