Nathaniel Mather  

Nathaniel was born in Sacramento, California.  Raised in the Southern California region, Nate met and married his wife of 24 years, Peggy, while she was attending UCLA.  They have three daughters, Grace (18), Trinity (14) and Hope (8).  Nate and his family live in the Nashville Tennessee area.

During high school, Nathaniel worked as a professional musician, playing drums in Los Angeles.  Feeling the urge to be more expressive, he began to paint and found painting to be a greatly satisfying outlet.  He decided to enroll in art school.  After a short while at the Art Center College of Design he became disillusioned and left school.  “I was disappointed by the lack of artistic freedom in the classroom.  The professors were more concerned with the rules of art, not the essence or the life of a painting.  I was discouraged with the art world as a whole.”

Nate started a career in golf management and became a General Manager/COO in the private club industry.  He did not paint for seven years.

His rebirth into the art world came after a bout with depression.  He started to paint a daily journal to deal with the pressures and conflicts of life.  “I was trying to figure out who I was, what role did God have in my creative world and what really matters in life.  Painting became an important part of my daily life and a great tool for me to answer those questions.”

Today Nathaniel’s work still reflects that intimate and personal style developed through those trials.