Based in NH and ME USA Matti Crowe has been honing his art skills since childhood. He began with a game of drawing random shapes— taking those shapes and turning them into characters. From his imagination, Matti went on to develop his technique by creating different groups of paintings that focused on one skill in particular. His first series centered on mouths and teeth. He experimented with realistic and imaginary creatures, light and dark, large and small and always bold, vivid color. Matti is currently working on a series of Melting characters to investigate emotion, even going so far as to have some characters that show emotion without any faces at all. During the long winter months Matthew is a professional Freeski coach and travels with his team globally helping them prep for high level events. When he travels he sketches to create new ideas to bring home to the canvas an paint.