Elora Fergus Studio Tour - Michael Madden - Coloured Pencil

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About

Living in the beautiful countryside between Elora and Fergus, is to be living during an “in between” time when this landscape continues to be transformed and to disappear.

My work is a meditation on environments that have been and continue to be disrupted and re-formed by human interference. This exploration is an impression of what has been altered and normalized as “beautiful”, and includes markers of interruption that point to further alteration. These interrupted landscapes are juxtaposed to the presence of untamable cloudscapes that look to initiate statio: that intentional pause to contemplate what is at stake and the role our choices and inertia play in the midst of our relentless environmental disruption.

The work is rendered with coloured pencils directly upon wood panel. The wood grain, reading as a palimpsest, is visible and integral: the medium remains on the surface of the harder wood fibres and allows light to “occupy” the “in-between”

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• Michael Madden elorafergusstudiotour.com
• Michael Madden michaelmadden.ca

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Elora Fergus Studio Tour

The Elora Fergus Studio Tour has been operating for 38 years as a free, annual event to celebrate the abundance of exceptional artists living and working in Centre Wellington. Each artist is juried in by an esteemed panel of experienced artists, and we allow a maximum of 40 participants. We advertise our tour in major cities within a 2 hour radius of Centre Wellington.