So the battle between his David and the Goliath gas and oil industry continues. In the conflict, Mattson’s slingshot is his art. (Border Crossings Magazine 2016)
Raised on the eroding banks of Rolla Creek, as a fifth generation farmer who lives in the South Peace, Karl Mattson is a self-taught, multi-media artist. Karl’s life has been fuelled by his compulsion to create and speak through art, which has always played a central role in his life.