Plowzart (Matthew Plowright)
About the Artist
Matthew Plowright is PLOWZart. Through line, colour and imagination, PLOWZart deals with ridiculousness, mysticism and his own Bi-Polar dis-order.
'Woman Stood in a Cornfield'
Description: Echoing iconic Art Nouveau master Gustav Klimt, the central figure’s dress features an intricate, mesmerizing explosion of mosaic linework and organic patterning that directly nods to Klimt's iconic gold-leaf portraits.
Dimensions [Framed]: 76 x 79 cm
Recommended sale price: £260
'Pedro: The Llama that Flew to the Bahamas'
Description: A spectacular, entirely unique, and completely handmade book. Titled 'Pedro: The Llama That Flew to the Bahamas', this one-of-a-kind narrative treasure featuring both original text and full-bleed, hand-painted illustrations detailing the whimsical adventures of Pedro the Llama. Complete with a custom, hand-painted hanging banana charm on a twine element, the book is a tour de force of Plowzart's character design, vibrant tropical palettes, and storytelling brilliance.
Dimensions: 25 x 29 cm
Materials: Handmade book with banana book marker
Recommended sale price: £335
'Lady Fruit'
Description: Lady Fruit delivers a bold, design-led homage to the whimsical legacy of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, masterfully reimagined through a lens of mid-century Cubism. The central subject is entirely constructed from an richly textured cluster of organic forms, namely a prominent banana nose, cherry adornments, and cascading grape curls, as she sits intuitively reading a book.
Dimensions: 60 x 80cm
Materials: Acrylic on canvas
Recommended sale price: £220
'Circe Invidosa'
Description: A dramatic reproduction of John William Waterhouse’s spellbinding 1892 mythological piece, Circe Invidiosa. The composition captures the exact moment of intense mythological jealousy as the sorceress Circe stands upon a churning sea monster, poisoning the waters of her rival Scylla with a glowing, vibrant green bowl of venom.
Dimensions [Board Framed]: 51 x 41 cm
Recommended sale price: £120
'Pandora's Box'
Description: A striking reproduction of John William Waterhouse’s 1896 mythological masterpiece, Pandora. The composition captures the defining moment of Greek myth as the central figure cautiously cracks open the gilded chest, releasing a faint, ethereal mist into the deep forest twilight.
Dimensions [Board Framed]: 51 x 41 cm
Recommended sale price: £150
'Siren'
Description: A mesmerizing, reproduction of John William Waterhouse’s celebrated 1903 mythological masterpiece, The Siren. The composition captures the haunting allure of classical folklore, depicting a beautiful, butterfly-winged siren perched on a rugged cliffside as she casts a spellbinding gaze over a churning turquoise sea, while a dark harpy circles in the stormy sky above.
Dimensions [Board Framed]: 51 x 41 cm
Recommended sale price: £120
'Sister of the Sea'
Description: A homage to Herbert James Draper's 1898 piece, The Kelpie. 'Sister of the Sea' captures a classical water spirit with cascading dark hair standing at the ocean's edge, subverted by Plowzart’s signature surrealism through the addition of a whimsical flying snail floating above her arm.
Dimensions [Board Framed]: 51 x 41 cm
Recommended sale price: £120
'Woman picking flowers'
Description: This piece delivers a deeply romantic, post-impressionist homage to mythological works of John William Waterhouse. The composition depicts a lone, barefoot woman in flowing pink and terracotta drapery, leaning gracefully to harvest white blossoms from a dense, textured meadow at twilight. Framed by a backdrop of sweeping olive-toned trees and a soft violet sky, the canvas replaces flat graphic lines with highly gestural, layered brushwork that captures movement, light, and an enduring sense of classical folklore.
Dimensions: 50 x 60cm
Material: Acrylic on canvas
Recommended sale price: £200
'Crazed Imaginary Floral Display'
Description: This composition features a wildly chaotic, multi-layered explosion of gestural splatters and vibrant floral bursts erupting from a heavily distorted, cubist vase structure.
Dimensions: 50 x 60 cm
Materials: Acrylic on canvas
Recommended sale price: £185
'Flora'
Description: Paying homage to the Roman goddess of spring, flowers and fertility, the central flowing figure, crowning with a floral headpiece, is captured holding a basket of fresh blossoms while stepping through a brilliantly textured meadow alive with daisies, poppies, and towering sunflowers.
Dimensions: 30 x 40 cm
Materials: Acrylic on canvas
Recommended sale price: £130
'PLOWZART & The Prawn'
Description: A highly collectible, hand-signed 2019 self-portrait by Nottingham contemporary artist Matthew Plowright. Titled 'Plowzart & The Prawn', this striking piece captures the artist in his signature cubist-surrealist style, holding a traditional painter's palette while a whimsical, crowned prawn sits perched upon his hand clutching a lit paintbrush.
Dimensions [Board Framed]: 45 x 55 cm
Recommended sale price: £160
'ToSuit'
Description: This piece showcases the artist’s mastery of graphic cubist surrealism, portraying a contemplative female figure set against an intricate domestic interior. The dense, beautifully balanced composition features an elegant golden harp wrapped in climbing green tendrils, an ornate wooden writing desk, and a stylized goldfish bowl resting beside a heavily textured indigo drapery.
Dimensions [Board Framed]: 51 x 41 cm
Recommended sale price: £110
'Untitled' (Double-sided original studio work)
Description: An extraordinary, double-sided original acrylic painting on canvas board. The front features a surreal fusion of high art history, combining the iconic, solemn figure from Picasso's The Old Guitarist with the swirling celestial energy of Van Gogh's Starry Night, populated by a whimsical butterfly-winged fish creature scaling a melting, Dalí-esque rock formation. The reverse side reveals an intimate look into Plowzart's raw creative process, displaying a beautifully textured, hybrid mythological seahorse creature upon a fiery crimson landscape, complete with the artist's original unfinished pencil schematics.
Dimensions: 45 x 38cm
Recommended sale price: £180
'Still Life with Bull's Skull and Jug'
Description: A powerful homage to Picasso's Cubist still-lifes, the striking composition fragments a classic table setting into sharp, angular planes, featuring a heavily textured bull’s skull contrasted against an intricately swirled, bird-topped ceremonial pitcher and scattered fruits.
Dimensions: 51 x 45cm
Material: Acrylic on canvas board
Recommended sale price: £200
'Giant Jellyfish Lady & Rodger the Prawn'
Description: A Marie Antoinette-style 18th-century noblewoman featuring an extravagant Coiffure à la Belle-Poule (the historic ship-in-the-hair trend) whose dress morphs into a floating, ethereal jellyfish, all while sharing an intimate moment with his recurring character, Rodger the Prawn.
Dimensions [Board Framed]: 54 x 32.5 cm
Recommended sale price: £95
Bidding will open on Saturday 10 October 2026.
Our charity auction is an online silent auction which means you will not be able to see how many others have submitted bids or for what amount so please bid the maximum you would be willing to pay for the artwork.