About Me

Madelaine Millar

Madelaine Millar was born and raised in Missoula, Montana, and spent five years in Boston, Massachusetts studying journalism. She rediscovered her love of visual art during the pandemic, and began to identify her unique voice when an overlapping bad breakup, unexpected move, major job change, and serious surgical procedure made for a deeply strange 2022. She is now a freelance artist, writer, and writing tutor.

Artist’s Statement

My art documents my journey back to my own nature as an intuitive, feeling animal, after years of trying to repress my way into fulfillment. My process is intuitive and improvisational, working my way back into my own body by meeting every impulse with an attitude of “yes, and”, and the result is often characterized by vibrant colors, tightly woven composition, and layers of watercolor and ink applied over many hours. My paintings are physical remnants reflecting back to me the quality of my art, which I consider to be my relationship with the divine, living world around me. At their best, they aim to spark a second moment of art within a viewer who finds something of their own nature reflected back in the work before them.