{"id":3880,"date":"2026-05-11T00:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T00:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/?page_id=3880"},"modified":"2026-05-11T00:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T00:05:13","slug":"jill-madden-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/jill-madden-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Madden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jill Madden, Sunrise, North Beach, Great Spruce Head Island,<\/em> oil on linen panel, 10 x 8 in. 2022.
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My paintings over the last decade have been created primarily onsite. The small-scale parameters arose from the practicality of traveling into locations by foot or ski. The two paintings exhibited in this show, Sunrise, Great Spruce Head Island<\/em>, and Sunrise, North Beach, Great Spruce Head Island<\/em>, painted while a resident at the Fairfield Porter Foundation Artist Residency on Great Spruce Head Island, Maine, exemplify this process, which is best distilled in my journal in an entry I wrote at 3:30 a.m. on 27 June 2022:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Jill Madden, Sunrise, Great Spruce Head Island<\/em>, oil on linen panel, 6 x 8 in. 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

“I don my long pants, wool hoodie and wrap my down coat around my waist. I tip-toe past the doors of my new painting friends who have joined this Art Week out of their own love and respect for Fairfield Porter. I check the sky from the kitchen window as my coffee water boils. A deep purple cloud sits on top of a dark orange band of light. It is this dawn light that draws me outside every morning at GSHI. Grabbing my pack on the way out, I head down the trail to North Point Beach where I set up my easel. Anina [Porter] mentioned that Fairfield [Porter] always started with bigger shapes of color, which is a helpful reminder this morning when the light is a crazy hash of violets and fuchsia sitting on bands of leaden gray. I take some long breaths and begin mixing colors.” \u2014 6\/27, 3:30 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My paintings over the last decade have been created primarily onsite. The small-scale parameters arose from the practicality of traveling into locations by foot or ski. The two paintings exhibited in this show, Sunrise, Great Spruce Head Island, and Sunrise, North Beach, Great Spruce Head Island, painted while a resident at the Fairfield Porter Foundation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19412,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4193,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3880\/revisions\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}