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Cate Maddy

Cate Maddy - Gentle presence


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Original Artwork

75 x 85 cm | Oil and oil stick on Canvas | Unframed | Ready to hang

About the Artwork:

This still life reflects on the cycles of life and beauty. The flowers, some in full bloom and others beginning to wilt, speak to the passing of time and the inevitability of change. At the heart of the scene rests out old Siamese cat - a quiet companion, fragile now yet filled with the grace of years. She may no longer be full of energy, but her presence remains steady, tender, and deeply cherished. 'Gentle Presence' is both a meditation on impermanence and a tribute to the quiet strength of love that endures through every stage.

About the Artist:

Cate’s process is both instinctive and deliberate. She builds her surfaces through gestural mark-making, layering pigments and materials in a way that suggests both movement and stillness- moments suspended in space. Her approach embraces abstraction as a way of articulating what cannot be easily seen or said: a way of being in the worked that is felt more than understood.


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Cate Maddy

Cate Maddy is a Melbourne based artist living and working on Wurundjeri Country. Her practice is grounded in deep connection to the Australian bushland that surrounds her home – an ever -evolving source of inspiration that shapes both the emotional and conceptual core of her work.

Holding a Bachelor of Fine Art from RMITUniversity, Cate has exhibited extensively across Australia and her work can be found in collections here and internationally. Her mixed media paintings explore the intersection between the material and the metaphysical, using colour and texture as tools for deeper inquiry. Drawing on principles of colour psychology, her work invites intuitive, sensory responses from viewers, while engaging with expansive themes such as identity, time, memory and perception.

Cate’s process is both instinctive and deliberate. She builds her surfaces through gestural mark-making, layering pigments and materials in a way that suggests both movement and stillness- moments suspended in space. Her approach embraces abstraction as a way of articulating what cannot be easily seen or said: a way of being in the worked that is felt more than understood.

With each work, Cate aims to create a space of contemplation- an encounter with nature not just as a visual subject, but as a lived and felt presence. Her paintings offer portals into something larger, reflecting the quiet, complex relationships we hold with place, self and the unseen.