Vermont painter, Madeleine Murray, grew up in Bradford, VT at a pottery where she started making things at an early age. She worked on her first large scale painting when she was three, sold her first logo design at age fourteen, and won art contests throughout high-school and college.
Madeleine started selling her paintings in 2016 while living in North Carolina. She now has collectors in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Illinois, and Washington.
She is on the board of directors of Vermont North by Hand and teaches painting and drawing at Davis Studio in South Burlington, Vermont. Madeleine Murray signs her paintings with her initials, MSM.
Many people comment that Murray’s paintings feel ‘healing and soothing’ to look at. Consistent feedback like this encourages her to keep painting and sharing her work. She wants to make paintings that people can look at and perhaps feel better than they did before.
“I paint what I imagine and what I want to remember.”
“Paintings prove themselves, I believe, in how they can hold you in their present, if you allow them. I want to know what I might see or understand if I can meet a painting in the moment and attempt to read meaning or sensation in all of its tactility and recorded action—a rare moment of silent meditation and focused contemplation.”- John Vincler
Source: ‘On Wingspan: Joan Mitchell’s Reach‘ by John Vincler The Paris Review July 3, 2019
