Madeline is an abstract painter based in Missoula, Montana. 

Her practice is directly related to her experiences and observations on the nature of possibility, chance, the human psyche and the natural world. Her paintings explore the shifting, animate, and multi-sided nature of form and organic matter. The subjects of the work are those which avoid total definition, revealing themselves partially, allowing the space and the freedom to change. 

“I am dedicated to meeting places where parts commune, emphasizing definite edge but denying definite form. The open ended spaces aim to set up a frame of experience where freedom is encouraged to fill the inner or ultimate form. I am curious about associations that happen in these convergences, whether that be assigning feelings of place, object, or some experience in a memory. By way of suggestion, notions of familiarity can be felt but not fully assimilated. Instead, they can be jumping points for reference, recollection, and transformation.” 

The work is inspired by nature, place, landscape, botanicals, talismans, myth, animacy and those feelings you can't quite put your finger on.

Education: BFA 2013 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY