Madelyn Schider is a traditional fine artist residing along the beaches of North Carolina.
From an early age, Madelyn found herself captivated by the beauty and quietness of the natural world. Outdoor adventures at a young age taught her to notice the quiet details often missed: the character of a tree, the movement of an animal, the way light settles across a landscape.
As she grew older, the moments that made her pause, wonder, and feel at home became more than memories. She began to preserve them through art. Encouraged by her family, Madelyn developed a style of her own, working across watercolor, painting, illustration, and more, with recognition in variety of mediums.
Though she has explored many forms of art, it is through painting that she most fully translates what she sees into something that lasts. With years of knowledge gathered from studying nature every brushstroke becomes an opportunity to capture not only what something looks like, but the feeling of being there.
While her love of nature keeps her work grounded in the imperfect beauty of the world around her, God ultimately shapes the way she sees and creates. She strives to see the world more fully through the eyes of a child of God, finding beauty not only in grand landscapes and wildlife, but also in the quiet, ordinary moments that are easy to overlook.
“I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do not bear fruit so they will produce even more. You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me.” -John 15:1-4
Art is my form of prayer.
Painting allows me to capture the beauty of the present world while looking with curiosity toward what God has planned. Paint allws me to turn fleeting moments of creation into something that can be held, remembered, and seen again.
To preserve a sense of wonder, I pray my art allows you to wander into a story you hope to remember. A story once detailed and loud, now blurred and quiet can be formed in paint where words have been forgotten.
I invite you to slow down, notice, and remember the beauty that has been placed in our lives before us.
- Madelyn Schider
