Matilda Rose (b. 1992) is a British painter whose work explores how perception shifts with time, and how the intensity of first experience fades. Her paintings trace a search for what she calls “childhood’s aura,” not as a return to youth, but as a re-encounter with the brightness through which things were once seen.
Working in oil on paper, she creates small, fluid worlds where colour and gesture hover between clarity and dissolve. Her paintings do not depict memories, but the act of returning to them. Light, objects, and symbols emerge like fragments of recollection, each carrying the shimmer of something remembered as extraordinary. Every image holds a moment of recognition, when what has changed is not the subject but the viewer.
Beneath these sensorial spaces lies an awareness of how vision has been reshaped by digital saturation. The rhythm of scrolling enters her process as condition rather than theme, mirrored in her shifting brushwork and layered surfaces. Through the slowness of paint, she restores depth and duration to perception, inviting the viewer to linger where attention usually flickers.
