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Some More Troll Comments...
I have been persevering with my "Troll Comments" painting - where I am writing out shit people have written under my social meia posts...

Madeleina Kay
Aug 17, 20242 min read


Adam's Colours
Me and Adam decided on the best photo to use for the final portrait and I created the linework portrait before adding the watercolour...

Madeleina Kay
Aug 13, 20242 min read


Ania's Colours
I created the line-work portrait from Ania's preferred photo before adding her colours in watercolour splatters. I t took Ania a while to...

Madeleina Kay
Aug 11, 20241 min read


Stand Up to Racism Demo with the International Women in Sheffield Community
I've found the news and social media coverage of the far right, racist riots difficult to cope with in the last couple of weeks. This...

Madeleina Kay
Aug 11, 20244 min read


Sketching Adam
I first connected with Adam, when he sent me an email to tell me about a pro-European concert he was organising and to express his...

Madeleina Kay
Aug 5, 20241 min read


Blood Stains Like Ink - Virtual Exhibition and Publication
I was excited to be included in this online exhibition and publication on the topic of menstrual health and period equity, organised by...

Madeleina Kay
Aug 2, 20241 min read


Sketching Ania
Ania is a Ukrainian artist living in Switzerland and a member of my art collective - Dare to Care . I made this series of three linework...

Madeleina Kay
Aug 2, 20241 min read


Abstract Mark Making
I unintentionally ended up with a stack of those small canvas boards - which I don't particularly like painting on... So, I decided to...

Madeleina Kay
Aug 1, 20241 min read


Oil Portrait Test - Lora
Lora's was my final "test" painting before I start the final oil portraits. I decided to start with a slightly different approach to the...

Madeleina Kay
Jul 30, 20241 min read


Oil Portrait Test - Redi
I decided to make another "test" piece for my oil portraits, to see whether adding light splatters to the background added to the overall...

Madeleina Kay
Jul 23, 20241 min read


"A Very Middle Class Sort of Trauma"
This blog post is available upon request. I really hate drawing and cutting out the letters, but it's worth taking time over to make them...

Madeleina Kay
Jul 14, 20241 min read


Nikita in Colour
I started with the linework in waterproof ink for Nikita's portraits. I have a cheat method for accuracy of using my Macbook screen as a...

Madeleina Kay
Jul 10, 20241 min read


Livia in Colour
Post elections I'm slowly getting back to making some progress on my identity research project... I need to be more focussed on this over...

Madeleina Kay
Jul 9, 20241 min read


Sketching Nikita
This blog post is available upon request.

Madeleina Kay
Jul 6, 20241 min read


Sketches from Durrës
Durrës is an Albanian coastal town about 40km from the capital city Tirana. I wanted to go somewhere else for a couple of days and this...

Madeleina Kay
Jul 3, 20241 min read


Preparing for filming the "SICK NOTE CULTURE" music video
It had always been my intention to recycle the ‘It’s Time To Vote’ song which I wrote for the YEUF project (mobilising young voters for...

Madeleina Kay
Jun 17, 20245 min read


Sketches from Bucharest
I was travelling to Romania for a “YEUF project” event – my main mission was to record video interviews for the documentary I am making...

Madeleina Kay
May 20, 20247 min read


If it’s a “culture” then we should have clothing and jewellery
Well, it looks like I’ve just ruined a perfectly good and brand new jacket with more of my protest-y nonsense (for the record, I scoured...

Madeleina Kay
May 8, 20245 min read


Sketching Livia
This blog post is available upon request.

Madeleina Kay
May 1, 20241 min read


"Sick Note Culture" - The British public's abusive relationship with the Conservative government
Where to start on this one? I got back from a wonderful few days in Italy working with my art collective, Dare to Care, on an...

Madeleina Kay
Apr 24, 20244 min read
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