Madonna paintings are always fascnating for me to work on and have been since I first created quite a graphic “Bad Girl” design back in 2004. If you ignore some of the tabloid headlines and concentrate on the music, Madonna has produced a body of outstanding work over the years.
I find her a fascinating subect to paint and she definitely deserves the title of modern day icon. Madonna art has changed along with my developing styles over the years through graphic to loose acrylic to realistic oil painting.
Madonna Ciconne painting created over several months in oil on board. this framed Madonna painting is quite an emotive and high impact artwork. I wanted it to have a slight "deco" or twenties feel to it. I endeavour to improve any celebrity paintings which I have created over the years and I find myself quite satisfied with te completed artwork.
Madonna in a big Pop Art graphic style. I designed this artwork in 2004 and brought it to canvas shortly after. There is something very reflective of my Interior Design work in this canvas, and still today, I am proud of this, clean, sharp, often copied art.
Like many of my early oil paintings, this was quite a simple painting in that once i had the likeness established, there was not the same layering of paint in the manner that I work today. Still, I think this is an honest example of where my painting was at the time.
This Madonna artwork was painted during an experimental phase when I was experimenting with alternative methods or ways of applying paint to the canvas which were new to me. When i look back at paintings, it's not possible to love everyything produced but I can usually always learn something with hindsight. This is a painting however, which I would be happy to produce some four years on.
Madonna Ciconne painting in a loose style. This original artwork was based on a cover feature in Cosmopolitan magazine and formed a part of the First major Joe Hendry solo art exhibition in Glasgow in 2007.
I love painting as you may have gathered but returning to painting the way I did initially bu twith the hindsight of experience is somthing that seems extra special for me. This painting of Madonna was fantastic to create as I had painted a version of it before but wanted to see if I could take it that bit further. I believe that there is a big element of who I really am as aperson and as a painter in this artwork.
