Madeleine Matsson

Visual Journeys Through Light & Color

Madeleine Matsson

New York, USA

“I hunt for clarity as I work from memory and observation of landscapes, both rural and urban. Painting under the open skies feeds my need to create and learn from the outdoors, while its inherent unpredictability nurtures urgency and freshness. For this reason, I rarely use photographs; my work must come from life or from within. The ephemeral quality of working enpleinairis crucial to how I paint in the roofed studio where the conversation transforms as I add my experiences and internal dialogues into the mix.

I work from nature to observe shapes and how they relate to one another to help me find www.matssonart.com the intimate moment where representation and abstraction meet. I hunt to capture a protagonist to my scenes whether that be trees dancing with one another or the blue from a darkening sky behind the silhouetted tree line. My smaller oil paintings are all done in one sitting to encapsulate the intensity of that moment. As an urban dweller, nature, void of humans, has become a luxury, yet it is essential for mental health and in critical need of protection.

My practice is a reminder of how modern civilization cannot escape itself but also how nature is resilient and morphs with us no matter how much we abuse it. "

Madeleine Matisson Engagement, 2019 Oil on board 30.5 x 22 x 2.3 cm

Madeleine Matisson Orange Light on House, 2019 Oil on board 30.5 x 22 x 2.3 cm

Madeleine Matsson was born riences into her work. in Sweden, grew up in the USA, Medeleine recently completed and received her BFA from her MFA at the New York Studio Concordia University, Montreal, School of Drawing, Painting & Canada. Since moving to NYC, in Sculpture where she was the 2012, she has exhibited in group recipient of several scholarships shows across the boroughs in- including from the Milton and cluding at the Knockdown Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Center and at Local Projects in Jonathan and Barbara Silver, Queens. In Manhattan, she has Dita Amory, and the Vera List shown at the Blue Mountain Scholarships . These past two Gallery in Chelsea, along with summers she spent working from participating in a live painting nature at fully funded resievent for the Rubin Museum dencies: the Chautauqua School block party. Inter-nationally, she of Art in upstate New York and has shown in Canada, Sweden, at the Four Pillars Artists Austria, Me-xico, and Residencyin rural Pennsylvania. Guatemala. Speaking five She continues to work from and languages and having lived in be inspired by nature in and five different countries, she is around her Brooklyn studio. inspired by the many cultures with which she has communed, and she incorporates these expeText by the artist 87