"Beneath ominous skies and set within flat, green parkland, Lee Madgwick's folly-like buildings strike an unsettling note. His surreal paintings feature dilapidated facades and uncanny shrubbery against cloudy, deep gray skies-usually with something just a little strange going on. In "Drift," for example, bricks dislodge from the top of a boxy structure and float into the sky one by one, and "Fracture" defies gravity altogether with a hovering apartment tower that crumbles from below."
"Madgwick's paintings aren't without hints of dark humor, like in "Echoes," in which half a building appears to be missing, as if washed away in a now-calm stream. Inside the ragged remains, a waterslide makes use of the height. People are nowhere to be seen in Madgwick's compositions, although their presence is felt in the graffiti left on walls or curtains drawn in various windows."
Surreal paintings depict dilapidated, folly-like buildings set in flat, green parkland beneath deep gray, ominous skies. Architectural facades appear unstable: bricks drift upward, apartment towers hover and crumble, and sections seem washed away. Uncanny shrubbery and graffiti suggest human presence without showing people. Strange interventions, such as a waterslide occupying a gutted interior, introduce dark humor amid melancholy. The works focus on overlooked rural landscapes and developments, infusing them with an undercurrent of mischievous menace. Heavy skies and isolated structures create an otherworldly, melancholic mood that blurs realism and fantasy.
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