{"id":6362,"date":"2023-09-21T23:31:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T22:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bacsac.com\/journal\/?p=6362"},"modified":"2024-09-09T17:01:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T16:01:12","slug":"madeleine-provost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bacsac.com\/journal\/en\/madeleine-provost\/","title":{"rendered":"Madeleine Provost"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the flower fields with dye artist Madeleine Provost<\/a><\/h2>\n

Rockaway (Queens, NY)<\/b><\/h4>\n

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From her childhood in suburban New Jersey, just outside of NYC, Maddie recalls collecting ripe berries and other foraged items from her mother\u2019s backyard garden and using them for finger painting. An early experience of colours drawn from nature, later followed by her discovery of Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler colour field paintings \u2013 tracing the start of her artistic journey using botanical pigments.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trained at Parsons School of Design and after a career as a fashion designer, in 2021 Maddie moved to Rockaway, a beachside area in Queens, and shifted her life to dedicate to her art. <\/span>\u201dAfter losing my Mom from cancer, suddenly I woke up in my own life and saw how far from myself I had gone. Obsessed with colour fields, I realized I wanted to pursue my dream of becoming an abstract painter and loved the idea that I could wake up and see the horizon line, and contemplate the huge canvas of the sky when sun rises and sets.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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