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Lisa Madigan

My practice as a painter revolves in & around the expression of an honest, raw, beauty. Deeply inspired by nature I'm drawn to communicate the essence that thrives in the ever shifting momentum of light, seasons change, transitions, the idea that nothing is permanent but we can be lost forever in a single moment. There's always a double edge, beauty cannot exist without having tasted something a little darker at some point & my work will always be about that depth of experience, not a superficial exposure of the pretty or the nice but an authentic expression of real experience & baring witness, depth & grit. There always seems to be that thread & dance between the tangible, that essence of the earth & what grounds us & then also of the ethereal, an essence, a grand allusion, an inner connotation, a filter if you will from my external & internal rummagings that then extracts through into my work.