About The Artist

Mat Hurst paints to capture moments that connect emotionally.

His work lives at the collision of light and dark, realism and abstraction. Faces and figures are fractured into bold angles and cinematic shadows — caught mid-expression, mid-performance, mid-rebellion.

Through his studio, Dog House Art, Hurst captures icons, legends, and cultural sparks with the swagger of a film still and the soul of live music.

Each canvas feels alive: Bowie lost in a riff, Ali roaring mid-punch, Amy half-hidden in stage smoke. There’s tension in every stroke, movement in every line, and a quiet invitation beneath the noise — look closer, feel harder, remember how you felt the first time you saw and fell in love with a movie. When you witnessed musical greatness. When you were there for that moment.

Dog House Art isn’t about perfection. It’s about pulse, presence, and personality — modern icons, human stories, and colour that refuses to behave.