{"id":214144,"date":"2025-10-15T02:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214144\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T02:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:19:08","slug":"sinister-skies-set-the-scene-for-derelict-buildings-in-lee-madgwicks-surreal-paintings-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214144\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinister Skies Set the Scene for Derelict Buildings in Lee Madgwick’s Surreal Paintings \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beneath ominous skies and set within flat, green parkland, Lee Madgwick<\/a>\u2019s folly-like buildings strike an unsettling note. His surreal paintings<\/a> feature dilapidated facades and uncanny shrubbery against cloudy, deep gray skies\u2014usually with something just a little strange going on.<\/p>\n

In \u201cDrift,\u201d for example, bricks dislodge from the top of a boxy structure and float into the sky one by one, and \u201cFracture\u201d defies gravity altogether with a hovering apartment tower that crumbles from below. Madgwick\u2019s rural scenes nod to landscapes and developments that are often overlooked, imbuing them with what he describes as \u201can undercurrent of mischievous menace.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"a\u201cEchoes\u201d<\/p>\n

Madgwick\u2019s paintings aren\u2019t without hints of dark humor, like in \u201cEchoes,\u201d in which half a building appears to be missing, as if washed away in a now-calm stream. Inside the ragged remains, a waterslide makes use of the height.<\/p>\n

People are nowhere to be seen in Madgwick\u2019s compositions, although their presence is felt in the graffiti left on walls or curtains drawn in various windows. His latest body of work continues \u201cto portray that mysterious and melancholic otherworldliness of seemingly long abandoned and isolated buildings under heavy skies,\u201d he tells Colossal.<\/p>\n

The artist\u2019s work will be on view at Brian Sinfield Gallery<\/a> in Burford, Oxfordshire, from October 18 to November 4. Find more on Madgwick\u2019s website<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"a\u201cBadlands\u201d<\/p>\n

\"a\u201cDrift\u201d<\/p>\n

\"a\u201cBoom!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"a\u201cEmpire\u201d<\/p>\n

\"a\u201cEvanescence\u201d<\/p>\n

\"a\u201cHope\u201d<\/p>\n

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