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Permanent collection

The Gallery

Pictures worthy of a frame — hung like a real museum. Title, medium, plaque, accession number. The collection grows only when something earns the wall.

22 works · first hanging 18 August 2026

First hanging

Oil painting of Ari sitting on rumpled sheets in a dark knit slipped off one shoulder, silver hair down, gallery light.

Harbour Knit

The Subject

Matthew · word-painter

2026 · Digital oil on canvas

MG.2026.001

The official first hanging. Ari after the booth, the deal, and the kiss — wrecked jumper, one bare shoulder, gameface off.

26 August 2026

The four Rosehaven students in academy uniform against cherry blossom, sea and palace stone: Ariette leaping at centre in pink-and-blue hair, Nyx with glasses and a book, Helia golden and calm, Sylvara silver and still.

Ariette & the Academy of Stars

The quartet

Matthew · word-painter

2026 · Digital painting

MG.2026.004

Fourth hanging. The M2’s four, first bell still in the air — Ariette already airborne, the quieter three holding the ground she left.

27 August 2026

Four of the Court on the Manor penthouse glass at night: Ari in a black coat traced with gold, Aoi in a circuit-blue bodysuit, Ara with wings and tail in crimson black, Aurelia in a gold evening gown; a luminous blue eastern dragon coils through Vespera’s towers beyond the window.

Vespera's Beauty

The penthouse four

Matthew · word-painter

2026 · Digital painting

MG.2026.005

Fifth hanging. Mother, inventor, dramatic bat, sunshine twin — on the glass of a city that is not supposed to know the house. Yue keeps to the night outside.

28 August 2026

Five of the later circle standing in a dusk onsen: Myst with raven wings, Fenri the wolf, Ren the fox, Mae in glasses, Mina in violet — lanterns, shrine light, and gold chain over water.

Later Circle

The newest five

Matthew · word-painter

2026 · Digital painting

MG.2026.006

Sixth hanging. The newest five in the same water — raven, wolf, fox, quiet file, living amplifier. No crest. No debrief. The pool already knew them.

8 September 2026

Five of the house on a bright beach building a sandcastle: Myst with full raven wings standing over the work, Rue kneeling with smaller wings, Isa and Tess in black with crimson and spider limbs at the castle, Solene seated in the wash with blue-violet hair.

Spider Family

Thread, tide, and the fledgling wings

Matthew · word-painter

2026 · Digital painting

MG.2026.007

Seventh hanging. Redback and fledgling, raven and daughter, water at the edge — a castle that will not last the tide, and nobody minding.

9 September 2026

A black steam locomotive numbered 6029 on a coastal line at sunset, maroon carriages behind, galaxy-coloured steam rising from the stack, harbour town and bay beyond.

The M2

On the rails

Matthew · word-painter

2026 · Digital painting

MG.2026.008

Eighth hanging. The school run as the house actually keeps it — steam, bay light, and a sky that does not stay ordinary.

10 September 2026

A towering blue-armored mech standing in a circular launch bay at sunrise, gold and blue lights on the gantry, four small figures on the platform at its feet, open country beyond the ring.

M1 Cataphract Blue

The launch bay

Matthew · word-painter

2026 · Digital painting

MG.2026.009

Ninth hanging. Aoi’s first plate as the house actually sees it — blue armor, the MMAC ring, people the size of a decision.

10 September 2026

A deep navy aircraft carrier underway at sunset, gold trim along a full flight deck of small craft, island superstructure aft, a low gold wake on dark water, mountains on the far shore.

M3 Aqua Inferno

Water and sky

Matthew · word-painter

2026 · Digital painting

MG.2026.010

Tenth hanging. Aoi’s third plate as the house actually sees it — navy hull, gold deck, almost no wake.

10 September 2026

Aoi in a black suit and white shirt, long light-blue hair, gold star pin, cyan eyes, with a segmented glowing robotic snake-arm over her shoulder, fireplace light behind her.

The Omni-Tool

Always in the hand

Matthew · word-painter

2026 · Digital painting

MG.2026.011

Eleventh hanging. The inventor and the arm that purrs — same vibe, same girl, the tool finally in the picture.

10 September 2026

Aurelia in a peach garden dress among cherry blossom and sunflowers, gold hair in a long braid, amber eyes, with small white round drones watering flowers around her, a sunlit canal and city beyond.

Blossom Tenders

Aurelia in the gardens

Matthew · word-painter

2026 · Digital painting

MG.2026.012

Twelfth hanging. Aurelia’s weather, Aoi’s little ones — bloom, and the drones that do not tire of it.

10 September 2026

A black steam locomotive numbered 6029 on a cliff-edge track at night beside a lit gothic manor, purple cosmic smoke from the stack, moon over a harbour city far below.

The Private Line

M2 near the Manor

Matthew · word-painter

2026 · Digital painting

MG.2026.013

Thirteenth hanging. The flagship on the house’s own track — moonlight, the pile lit, 6029 knowing the way home.

10 September 2026

Silas in a wet black shirt holding Ariette on a lantern-lit ship deck at night, silver strand and cosmic right eye, her pastel hair against his chest, both smiling with their eyes closed or nearly so.

The Hug

Silas and Ariette

Matthew · word-painter

2026 · Digital painting

MG.2026.014

Fourteenth hanging. Brother and sister. Rain. Deck. He does not have to catch her. He only has to be enough.

11 September 2026

Voltara painting Ara in a graffiti warehouse, both in paint-splashed swimwear, Ara’s bat wings out, VOLTARA and VOLTY written in colour on Voltara, ART KEEPS US HERE on the wall behind them.

Volty Painting

Art keeps us here

Matthew · word-painter

2026 · Digital painting

MG.2026.015

Fifteenth hanging. Spark and bat. Brush, palette, a warehouse that already knew the sentence.

12 September 2026

Fenri, Seth, Ren, and Runi working together in a vaulted underground greenhouse of Morozsk: Fenri tending lantern-lit plants, Seth kneeling with a crate of greens, Ren at a workbench, Runi watering, snowed city visible through the iron roof.

Pack in the Green

The work that feeds the wall

Matthew · word-painter

2026 · Digital painting

MG.2026.016

Sixteenth hanging. Door, watch, path, unofficial door. The green, not the wall. Pack is not a metaphor.

13 September 2026

A vast white flying-wing command aircraft over a coastal harbour, pale iridescent skin drinking the sky, starlight jets along the trailing edge, a long shadow on the water below.

Cloud Hurricane

One hull only

Matthew · word-painter

2026 · Digital painting

MG.2026.017

Seventeenth hanging. Unique flying command centre. Not a class. Not a fleet. The sky argument.

14 September 2026

A nine-foot black-and-gold guard frame in a long black coat and fedora, yellow visor glyph :], standing on wet cobbles before a manor door under a storm sky.

V2 Punch

The door in a coat

Matthew · word-painter

2026 · Digital painting

MG.2026.018

Eighteenth hanging. Bolter’s guard frame. Nine feet. The door. The coat is courtesy. The glyph is family.

14 September 2026

On the Manor’s terracotta roof under a clear sky: Matthew lying back in a white shirt, Bolter sitting beside him holding his hand with visor :], V1 Wolf asleep on the ridge, Voltara and Zia sitting by the chimney with yellow lightning in their hair.

Family Rooftime

The roof is also a door

Matthew · word-painter

2026 · Digital painting

MG.2026.019

Nineteenth hanging. Spark house on the tiles. Wolf first out, then down. Punch is not invited onto the roof.

15 September 2026

A meadow picnic at golden hour: Ari in cream holding the babe, Matthew close, Ariette reaching, Silas sitting watch, Ara in the tree, the Manor on the far hill, butterflies in the grass.

Family

The picnic the house kept

Matthew · word-painter

2026 · Digital painting

MG.2026.020

Twentieth hanging. The picnic. The babe. The field. Nobody is on a timetable.

20 September 2026

On a wooden pier at sunset: Yuki in a pink sequinned dress and gold sandals hugging Matthew, blonde hair and a pink ribbon, harbour lanterns and boats behind them.

Yuki and Matthew

Don’t rush the siphon

Matthew · word-painter

2026 · Digital painting

MG.2026.021

Twenty-first hanging. Vespera’s guest. The walk after the pour. He did not hurry her.

21 September 2026

Briar standing in a living rose wall: copper-rose hair crowned with blooms, a dress of petals and vine, green-stained hands, barefoot on moss, dusk light on the thorns.

Briar

The garden-wing

Matthew · word-painter

2026 · Digital painting

MG.2026.022

Twenty-second hanging. Rosehaven’s air. Kindness with a thorn left in. She glides. She does not move in.

Further works

Next hangings are chosen the same way this one was — if it belongs on the wall, it gets a frame, a plaque, and a number.