Live Well

Live Well, 2026. Mixed media acrylic & hand processed Earth pigment on canvas, 18 x 29". Framed: 36 x 48".

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

"Live Well" is a piece from artist Mads TenCates newest collection of pieces featuring bold phrases integrated with different features and icons of the American Southwest. Mads has spend a great portion of her life traveling the backroads of the great American West picking up inspiration in all that she's encountered. Her newest collection relies heavily on said inspiration. Each piece featuring hand processed Earth pigments mindfully sourced from different locations throughout her travels. "Live Well" has lightly processed Earth samples from Ocotillo, California of the Imperial Valley as to still keep its texture in tact. With a bold ocotillo cacti sitting atop the collected soil sample, they sit together proudly as the distinct ocotillo cacti is only found in the Southwest Desert region of America dipping into Mexico. "Live Well" as a reminder to the viewer to live a good life, as the ocotillo cacti who've inhabited their region for 65 million years have done.