Cate Maddy

Cate Maddy, Pale Entourage, oil, acrylic and pen on canvas, 152 x 122cm, 2010

Cate Maddy, Only the Poppies are Given Light, oil and acrylic on canvas, 152 x 122cm, 2010

These paintings are translations of my readings and explorations of nature, of mapping its formations and abstracting what I feel to be the ‘essence’ of a particular moment. The work aims to create a dialogue between silences and spaces and the landscape of shapes and shadows to create a metaphorical language through colour and form which although derived from the natural world, hints at many different meanings. In the distillation of shapes we see figurative elements, but at the same time recognize a more universal emotional world of memory, death, love nurture and ecstasy.

My work looks at a world driven by contradictions where consumerism and environmental awareness compete and the presence of man seems impossible to evade.

Painting enables me to contemplate my complex environment, including natural and constructed, social, cultural and emotional in an expression of limitation and the limitless. Symbolizing our personal choices of what we include in our lives, our ability to exorcise the way we view life and our need for drama and exaggeration.

So I have fallen in love with Cate Maddy Paintings when I was browsing around the net to find any art exhibition that I could visit during the holiday. The more I look into it, the more I wanted to have it on my own lounge. So I contact the gallery for enquiry the price. It turned out it was exhibit down in Melbourne, at Harrison Galleries.

The lady replied back to me with the price, and also mentioned that they could arrange for delivery to Brisbane. I've never buy any paintings before since I've been waiting for right one. I know the price would be quite dear. As I excepected, the price is around $3000 to $4000 AUD. It's quite a lot amount of money for a painting but I think it's a decent price. It just really doesn't fit my single low-paid designer salary.

It's sad really… I really just can't afford it T_T Now, trying to remember to my recent visit to Bali. I actually meet an artist that suits my taste. At that time, we think his price offer was already quite dear. We just never deal with buying paintings, so we just look around and left. To think about it the price in comparison, I should just bought that paintings in Ubud, Bali. Sigh…