Madison Blair Cohen

Gallery

Work

17 pieces across oil painting, collage, charcoal and oil pastel. Select any work to view it larger.

Oil Paintings

Landscapes painted en plein air on Nantucket, alongside portrait and narrative work on canvas.

A red-and-white banded lighthouse standing above golden marsh grass beneath a heavy bank of dark storm cloud, with a band of pale light along the horizon.
Storm Watch
Three small sailboats lying at anchor in thick morning fog, their masts and reflections dissolving into a pale gold haze above still water.
Fogbound
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
A quiet shoreline where a shallow tidal channel curves between a sandy beach and low green dunes beneath a soft blue sky.
Mr. Rogers’ Beach
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 red kayak pulled up on a wide sandy beach beside a weathered fence post, under a pale blue sky with a distant green headland across the water.
Castaway
Seen from a high angle, a woman in a white blouse and long pale blue skirt bends down to stroke a black-and-white cat stretched out on sunlit ground, her shadow falling across the paving beside it.
Natasha
A young child in a blue dress lying with arms outstretched across a deep red couch, painted from directly above.
Red Couch
A muted grey railway platform where children in winter coats carry suitcases beside a long passenger train receding into the distance.
Bear Witness
Portrait of a cream-coloured goldendoodle standing and turning toward the viewer, painted against a deep teal background.
Trevor

Collage

Cut-paper and mixed-media portraits assembled from printed matter.

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 dense collage of torn photographs layering forest canopy, botanical line drawings, cut flowers, a peacock feather, a child’s face and a single blue eye.
Eye Spy

Charcoal

Observational studies in charcoal on paper.

A charcoal still life of a classical portrait bust on a plinth beside a ceramic jug, with draped cloth and a plaster fragment on the table before them, lit against a deep black ground.
Charcoal Study
A charcoal drawing of a dormitory lounge: a moulded lounge chair in the foreground and a corridor leading to an arched window and a curved balcony railing beyond.
At a Glance
A charcoal drawing of an emperor penguin standing with its head bowed and turned to one side, softly lit against a smudged grey ground.
Penguin
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

Oil Pastel

Colour studies worked in oil pastel.

An oil pastel of a shingled cottage with its white plank door standing open, framed by climbing red roses and dense green hedges under a blue summer sky.
Sconset Charmer