Wild Ozark: Where Madison Woods paints with Ozark pigments … and talks to rocks, creeks, and trees.
All of my art begins with foraging for pigments. I work with the very soul of the Earth: ocher rich stones, lightfast plants, soot, and charred bone for my earthy colors. A few primary colors are outsourced to add greater variation to the rustic tones.
Available original art:
To see everything, go to my portfolio. Go here to see my Schedule of Exhibits & Events. Psst ... I do give discounts for multiple original art purchases.
There is a place in the middle of the woods, down a long dirt road in Madison county, Arkansas where the hills flank the creeks and rivers. Where eagles, hawks, and owls soar. Coyotes sing on the ridgetops, bobcats prowl, and bears wander around flipping rocks to find grubs. Mist rises and rolls into the valleys on cool summer mornings and snow thunder echoes during winter. An artist lives in the middle of those woods, wandering the creeks looking for rocks. She smashes those rocks and washes the pigments, then makes her paints. Sometimes she finds bones, shed antlers, or bright orange clay, and she adds those pigment sources to her pockets, as well. Her artworks are earthy, calling on the land and wildlife for inspiration. Her chosen name is Madison Woods. She is me, the crazy lady in the mountains who paints with colors made from rocks. My real name is Roxann Riedel, and I’m also a nature-loving rural real estate agent.
You can see all of my work, sold and available at my portfolio page.
Where to see my nature art?
I don’t have a studio at this time, or a gallery. I’m happy to bring works out to NWA, if you’d like to see it in person before deciding whether to purchase.
The other way to see my available original art in person is to attend one of the events I have scheduled. I keep track of where and when I’ll be out with art on my Exhibits page.
Contact & About
email: madison@wildozark.com
phone: (479) 409-3429
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I’m a nature-lover, real estate agent & artist. Sometimes, I also write things. I began using local pigments to paint scenes from nature in the Ozarks in 2018.
All of my artwork is available in prints, and where originals are available, they are for sale. You can find all of that over at shop.WildOzark.com. I have a separate website for my real estate blogging and information at WildOzarkLand.com.
Call me “Roxann” or “Madison”, either one works.
For pretty much everything online, I go by Madison Woods, a pen name I adopted when I first began writing and then later with my art. For real estate, I use my real name, Roxann Riedel. And for my fiction, there’s yet another pen name: Ima Erthwitch.