Maddie Webb

Maddie is a contemporary fine artist working in Warwickshire with a career history rooted within Arts Education. In addition to successfully managing a community Art Gallery in Leamington Spa, Maddie has also been studying a Masters in Fine Art with Falmouth University. Currently she is working on a research and development project commissioned by Warwickshire District Council looking into the feasibility of a large multi functional art space currently being built in Leamington.

Maddie’s paintings are a synthesis of spaces, emotions, sensations experienced and imagined. Mood, colour, and atmosphere fascinate her. Her paintings hinge on just-aboutness; liminal and perceptible shapes: just-about states of mind that swing between figurative, non-figurative, almost suggested elements that are altered by each other.

Maddie’s artistic style is suggestive of the intensity of abstract expressionism, gestural mark making is used instinctively, her work becomes its own story and has its own energy. Layers of transparent glaze are built to create a depth of field that replicates the luminosity of peripheral layers of consciousness.

Fluctuating areas of colour and bodies of paint are expanded and foregrounded, displaying a freedom of movement. Ambiguity invites the viewer to speculate, to create meaning playfully, offering a counterpoint to disappearing, and of simultaneously becoming hyper-visible.