About Madeleine

I’m a British artist, based in the north-west of England, specialising in predominantly oil paintings – although I use acrylic and watercolour a lot as well. In recent years, my “canvasses” have grown to include the rough sides of houses in Kirkdale, Liverpool, where I used all the skills I had developed thus far in my life to create a 2D garden in a neglected neighbourhood.

I was born in Kent, and raised in the north of Scotland, where the wildness of nature and contemplative atmosphere fanned my artistic passions into flame. I was trained from the age of 9 right through to university level in all the traditional disciplines of Fine Art, then went on to do a more conceptual Fine Art degree course at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

After two years working for a charity in London, I embraced my “free spirit” and lived abroad in various places, doing mostly voluntary work while developing my art and song-writing. I have learned, lived and functioned in three foreign languages, and trained as a teacher while living in Lisbon, Portugal. I consider myself an “international” person and find it easy to get along with people of all ages and nationalities.

My Inspiration

My inspiration comes from resonating with the energy or creative force that I feel is inside all living things, particularly nature, the elements and people. My art, in all its forms, reflects this searching, resonating experience and aims to magnify the inner essence of things.

Visually, I get inspired by features of the natural world, particularly the edges of clouds; leaves; the curves of tree branches; the movement of wind through foliage; and the meandering pathways of rivers.

I constantly notice parallels between features of the natural world and the aspects of the human experience; the seasons we go through. My art is to do with visual metaphors that stand for something deeper and more implicit or spiritual.