Raised on the Caribbean island of Mustique, Bunbury became an accomplished equestrian, developing an authentic connection with horses that amplifies her ability to portray, with exceptional sensitivity, the physical and emotional characteristics of each individual horse. Bunbury begins her compositions with sketches from life, capturing the way natural light defines the horse’s powerful presence and shimmers across its coat. She brings these observational pieces back to her studio to reference as she paints the final work.

Bunbury’s skill in representing not only the physical form but also the essence of each horse has gained her an international following, with recent commissions across the U.K., the United States, and Italy. Her projects have taken her as far afield as Argentina, India, Pakistan, and throughout Europe. Notable commissions include paintings for HM Queen Elizabeth II, Prince William, the Sultan of Oman, and HH The Maharaja of Jaipur. Recently, the National Sporting Library and Museum, Middleburg, VA, presented Madeleine Bunbury: Modern Classic, a solo exhibition of her paintings, which were on view through March 2026. After three years as the National Sporting Library and Museum’s artist in residence, Bunbury now lives and works in Wiltshire, UK.

Contemporary Art Matters is pleased to present Still Life, a group of drawings, paintings and textile works exploring the rich spectrum of contemporary approaches to the still life genre. This Viewing Room presentation features artists Cooper Cox, Linda Gall, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Daina Higgins, Kira Nam Greene, Cheryl Pope, Billy Sullivan, and Liz Trapp. The exhibition will be on view in May at the gallery’s 243 N. 5th Street location in Columbus, Ohio.

Patrick Wilson’s abstract paintings emerge from a distinctly Southern California artistic legacy shaped by experimentation, light, and a keen sensitivity to color and surface. Expanding the visual language of hard-edge painting, Wilson orchestrates translucent planes of luminous color that intersect and transform through changing opacities. Their clear boundaries waver as the edges of rectangular color fields shift and hover in relation to one another across the composition. In his painting Desert Bloom, 2024, hues of violet bloom viscerally from candescent orange, their dynamic saturation creating an arresting visual force anchored by the composition’s geometry. Here, color and form become the subject itself, offering a contemplative respite from the relentless flow of digital imagery and inviting an immersive, sensorial viewing experience.

Though Wilson’s meticulous paintings may appear rigorously planned, they are not predetermined. Developed gradually over the course of months, the paintings evolve through an intuitive and highly responsive process of layering. With each application of pigmented acrylic emulsion, Wilson reacts to the developing composition established by the previous day’s work. Through improvisation, discovery, and free association, he builds the surface layer by layer, creating works that are distinctly hand-made, where sensitivity and touch leave visible traces of the artist’s hand.

Patrick Wilson ​​​​​(b. 1970 in Redding, CA) received his Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA and his Bachelor of Arts from University of California, Davis, CA. Wilson has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA; University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA; Marx & Zavaterro, San Francisco, CA; and Curator’s Office, Washington, D.C. His work has been exhibited in numerous institutions including The Ahmanson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; The Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA; and the San José Museum of Art, San José CA, among others.His work may be found in the collections of the Achenbach Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College, Claremont, CA; Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, West Palm Beach, FL Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; The Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul, MN; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; Phyllis and Ross Escalette Permanent Collection of Art, Chapman University, Orange, CA; San José Museum of Art, San José, CA; University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Wilson lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.