Matthew S. Wilson has been a professional artist in the film and animation industry for more than 20 years. He received his B.F.A from the Ringling School of Art and Design, where he specialized in computer animation and fine arts. For several years post-graduation, he focused on showing and selling classical narrative paintings in several galleries in Atlanta, Ga, and highpoint, NC. It was in these early days that the works began to explore clouds as part of a deeper landscape. 

His work crafting volumetric clouds and cloudscapes has contributed to numerous films with the incredible teams at Pixar and Bluesky studios among others. 

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    The newest personal works seek to take that knowledge, acquired across the years of production, and return them to the narrative and surreal images that began in his early career. "Sentinels" is the first complete collection of 12 images that uses his proprietary cloud building methods. The series pushes to generate imagery at a resolution and level of complexity typically achievable only at the largest studios with the processing power needed to generate these kinds of environments.

    His work explores the physical form and beauty of clouds. Draping them in cloth, transforms them into vessels of metaphor for the construction of each narrative. The drapery serves to encapsulate, connect or even free the subject or subjects in each piece. In addition to the clouds, the worlds they inhabit are also completely constructed in 3d to build a narrative framework. In concert, the world, the clouds, and the drapery become the stage, actor and wardrobe for the performance of a deep and meaningful moment.