Email: tjmadden@ameritech.net I have always been able to create images from my subconscious that pertain to my direct feelings and emotions. Ghostly compositions of yearning, compassion, pain, and finally contentment, have been a dominating theme in my early years as a painter. I have never intended to create this as a theme. It is just what comes to me when I approach a blank canvass. I use the movement in my composition to carry me throughout the caverns of my piece in progress. As one small story develops within my work, it tells me and leads me to another so to speak. I let the work build itself through a rich and vital storyline that conducts itself in my mind as I climb into my work. I have always been able to see the bigger picture as it unfolds in front of me in inhabitable moments. Living in the third person, fifty feet above the actual event has been my perspective. I’m sure everyone has their own “looking glass”, but unfortunately we are unable to share. I guess that is why we paint pictures, make movies, and write. “You have got to see what I’m seeing!” is what I am letting out of me when I paint, along with a bit of my soul. I also like to use political humor in some of my compositions. Have you seen “Weapon of Mass Destruction”? I truly try to express myself and a story to an individual admirer, however sometimes I like to take a stab at the whole ball of goo, so called “running” this sociological pile up we sometimes have to live in! But that is a rant for another time. Exhibitions/Awards: 1st PL (SCTEC)Southern Colorado Taco Eating Contest 2nd PL St John Fisher Science Fair Artist of the Year 1998- Brain Richard Quinn Foundation Univ. of Illinois- ran buck-naked through Quad during parents weekend for visiting high school seniors. |
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| Inflection | | | Remembering Yesterday | ||
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| The Sickness | | | Torment | ||
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| Weopon of Mass Destruction | | | A looming moment in time | ||
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| Cold and Alone | | | Hovering Boat | ||
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| One Perfect Moment | | | The Ultimate Choice | ||
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