Pachamama

Pachamama, 2024. Mixed media acrylic on archival paper, 17 x 22". Framed: 24 x 28".

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, "Pachamama" 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.

"Pachamama" is a mixed media acrylic painting that plays subtly with the delicate line most are not willing to touch between religion and spirituality. Raised spiritually aligned with the Earth as our greatest asset, our Mother, Pachamama, is highlighted in what loosely compares cacti to the iconography of modern religion. Punchy phrases only an artist dare put on paper, it's all painted as a playful reminder that it's faith in anything we find ways to connect to our highest self that truly matter at the end of the day. For artist, Mads, both her upbringing and years spent chasing the Earths endless discoveries, her religion is the same as that tree just outside.