About
Madeleine's love of art began in France, in childhood visits to the Louvre. Those long afternoons among the paintings stayed with her when she migrated to Australia at seventeen, and they have never left.
For many years she worked in oils with a brush. When her sight declined she did not stop painting. She changed how she paints.
“As my vision declined, finger painting became an alternative to brushwork.” Madeleine Popper
The Practice
Today Madeleine builds each work through touch, the memory of colour, and the feel of oil paint moving under her fingers. The result is work that is vivid, textured and unmistakably hers. Every painting is made by hand in the truest sense.
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Advocacy
Madeleine is a passionate advocate for people living with vision loss and for vision research. Through her painting and her exhibitions she shows that creativity changes shape, and it keeps going.
She welcomes invitations to speak with community groups, schools and organisations about art, blindness and living a creative life.
Exhibitions