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Danish by birth, the well-travelled Allan Madsen now lives and works in the Spanish province of Murcia. His first artistic incarnation was as a musician specialising in lute music of the Renaissance. These two interests, music and the Renaissance, have certainly crossed over into his paintings. The patterning in the backgrounds of his still lifes betrays a decided musicality whilst the texture he achieves is redolent of Italian murals. Giotto comes to mind when one studies the rich texture which is built up by the use of colour. It is as though one is in the Arena Chapel in Padua looking at the underpainting coming through due to the natural patination of age. It is this, the sense of age, which renders the works so tranquil. There is no need to explain or to vocalise them; one wishes merely to absorb them.
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