About me

Based in South Wales, Madge has exhibited across Wales and South West England, and is the resident artist at the 7Q Gallery Chepstow and the Glade Tearooms, Wentwood, as well as working to commission for both businesses and private clients. Creating highly textured works brimming with motion, Tara Madge takes inspiration from the impressionist style while forging her own unique artistic language. Whether depicting flowers in bloom, woodland landscapes or vistas of sea and sky, her paintings are filled with a freshness of colour, imbuing the canvas with a luminosity that appears to shine from within.  Madge’s painting process sees her working alla prima, mixing paint pigments directly on the canvas, as she seeks colour harmony and a sense of balance in each painting. She works with loose, painterly brushstrokes, inviting a sense of fluidity and animation into her work which is emphasised by an omission of harsh contours. Her subject matter is most often grounded in the natural world – flora and fauna, still life and seascapes are recurring themes – using a limited palette which sometimes fuses into muted tones while at other times juxtaposing with bright complimentary colours.