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CRITICAL ACCLAIM

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“Frank has the main ingredients for a

top notch wildlife painter … skill, talent

and good ideas. He is able to handle

watercolours very well and he accurately

depicts selected fragments of nature.” 

 

“Frank’s paintings have a natural quality, like a slice of the real world!”

Robert Bateman

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“His are action scene, which makes them exceptional for naturalistic painting, but the depend on a superbly coloured environment, which raises them above the general wildlife genre.”

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The Globe and Mail, Toronto

 

“Wildlife painting is a special branch of art whose devotees demand, above all else, anatomical accuracy. This quality Frank deMatteis delivers … The wildlife painter has other concerns then mere facts if he is to call himself an artist. A lifelike rendering, for example that catches the personality of the creature.. There is none of the embalmed look in his paintings.”

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 Louise Bruner, Art Critic, Toledo, Ohio

“…this instinct for pure painting, backed by an uncanny eye for catching movement, personality and a sense of life in the birds and surrounding foliage - so intense you could squash a berry, feel a heartbeat, bat at a mosquito.”

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Kay Kritzwiser, Globe & Mail, Toronto

 

 

 

 

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