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Garlic Still Life

Oil on Canvas - 40cm x 60cm

�2011, Matthew Bates, All Rights Reserved

This is an autobiography, and I promise to keep it to one page. I was born in a military hospital in Washington, DC, my dad, Stephen Bates was in the Marine Band a clarinet player, that is why we were in DC. My family is filled with artists, my sister, Jessica is a theater actress, my grandmother and great aunt were both painters, and my mother, Isabella teaches meditation. Growing up in Washington was a great way to be introduced to the art world, as a child my parents would take me to all of the great art museums, the National, the Corcoran, and especially the Phillips Collection where my father was good friends with the curator. I started painting when I was little, I found some watercolors that I made when I was ten, but it wasn't...