Maddie Hills
Through raw texture, chromatic intensity, and a visceral approach to paint, Maddie Hills transforms natural landscapes into layered meditations on memory, perception, and the fleeting imprint of time.
Hills’ work explores time and memory using the medium of paint and found materials to create layers that conceal and reveal existing marks. The paintings, each taking between a month and a number of years to create, often explore perception and memory relating to place; be that a landscape or space that she has spent time in. An interest in the materiality of paint is at the fore of Hills’ practice.
Hills has exhibited in London, Paris and Barcelona, and undertaken residencies in London and Iceland. Her work is in the British Airways Public Collection as well as private collections in France, Poland and London.
EDUCATION:
2020- 2021 Masters in Art & Material Histories, City & Guilds London, 2012-2015 BA Drawing and Applied Arts, UWE, First Class Honours
Maddie Rose Hills currently lives and works in Amsterdam.
“Paint is the medium I use to freeze an image in time. I use impasto to anchor the image down. But it’s in the filtration and depiction of a mental image that I attempt to achieve this visualisation of time passing.”
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