Eye Openers I
Eye Openers I
Eye Openers I, 2024. Mixed media acrylic & hand processed Earth pigment on archival paper, 17 x 22". Framed: 26 x 30 1/4".
About the Artist
Mads TenCate is a third-generation multi-disciplinary artist with over 13 years of campaign and editorial photo experience. Throughout her adult life, she's lived a bit unconventionally, traveling to shoot, shooting to travel throughout the greater American West while living out of a 90's Toyota truck. Painting business signs and automotive graphics between photo jobs, creating sterling silver adornments, and exploring a balance of grit and vintage soul in her fine art paintings, her heart and main source of inspiration lie with the natural Earth. Experiencing, documenting, and connecting the Earth's inhabitants to tangible art forms, her work flows with a similar approach through each creative branch. As per the collection at Roam Homeware, she's pulled together six original paintings from separate collections created with hand-collected and processed Earth pigments from her travels. Along with the use of vintage, antique, and reused findings, she brings diverse pieces of artwork to the eyes and hands of those who are ready to add a pop of grit and soil of the Earth into their lives.
About the Collection
Fresh out of a decade of life on the road as a traveling campaign and editorial photographer, "Eye Openers I" is a part of artist, Mads TenCate's collection "Ten Years Gone"- A Collection of 9 paintings produced in her first 2 months living in a traditional home after a decade of unconventional living. Needless to say, those first two months had a lot of creative unpacking and processing to do and best she knew as a third generation artist to a mother and grandfather who were painters, was getting her paints out and going until feeling the collection and process were complete.
"Eye Openers I" is 1/2 "Eye Openers" with "Eye Openers II" being its sister piece available with other pieces of Mads work on casadezoso.com. Eye Openers I is a mixed media acrylic painting made with hand processed Earth pigment sourced from her years of travel throughout the great American West. Specifically, this paining uses rich rust toned soil samples from the Colorado Desert, mindfully sourced as not to disturb the rich life-filled cryptobiotic soils so much of the land holds in America's Southwest Deserts. As with most of Mads work, "Eye Openers I" is an ode to Mother Earth and its ties to its inhabitants. "Every Ending is a New Beginning" and "Reincarnation" scrolled across share the endless transformation of the Earth and it's phases with the souls experiencing its wonder, possibly time and time again.
