Madison Blair Cohen

Painter · Collage · Charcoal · Oil Pastel

Madison Blair Cohen

Oil paintings, collage, charcoal and oil pastel — narrative portraits and the changing light of the Nantucket coast.

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An overturned white dinghy resting in beach grass above calm blue water, with wild pink roses in bloom on the right and a low green shoreline along the horizon.
Nantucket Splendor Oil painting

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A muted grey railway platform where children in winter coats carry suitcases beside a long passenger train receding into the distance.
Bear Witness
An overturned white dinghy resting in beach grass above calm blue water, with wild pink roses in bloom on the right and a low green shoreline along the horizon.
Nantucket Splendor
A mixed-media collage portrait of a woman whose face is assembled from cut paper in blue, pink and tan, framed by pink peonies, gold and green fabric and a botanical perfume advertisement.
Flora
A young child in a blue dress lying with arms outstretched across a deep red couch, painted from directly above.
Red Couch
A charcoal still life of an animal skull and a human skull resting on a table beside a metal box and a draped cloth, lit against a dark ground.
Still Life
A weathered post-and-rail fence draped in wild roses along a sandy path beside a broad sunlit tidal pond, under a wide cloud-streaked sky.
Madaket

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Statement

With art as my witness, I strive to capture the stark complexities of our world — the interplay of science, community, and socio-cultural challenge.

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