Wild Ozark™


Earthy Art Portfolio

Madison Woods is an Ozark nature artist creating original fine art from the ground up. This earthy art portfolio features works painted with hand-processed mineral pigments foraged directly from the Ozark landscape.


My practice is one of slow, intentional art. Long before the first brushstroke, the journey begins with ethical wildcrafting—gathering local rocks, clay, bone, and soot to serve as raw pigment. Each source is meticulously transformed into professional-grade paint through traditional methods of crushing, washing, sifting, and mulling.

While most of my palette is locally sourced, I supplement with select lightfast pigments for colors like blue and white to ensure a complete, archival range. From raw stone to finished canvas, my work captures the authentic, unrefined soul of the Ozarks.

Some of the raw pigments (rocks) I use to make my handmade paints.

In summary, the Ozark nature artist Madison Woods starts from source to paint. The process involves crushing, washing, drying, mulling, and containing the paint into tubes. The details for processing varies with each type of source (rocks, clay, bone, or soot).

This painting of a rocky Ozark creek bed features pigments foraged and processed into paints by Ozark nature artist Madison Woods.
Felkins Creek Study
An original oil painting of a Cooper's hawk by Madison Woods.
Blue-eyed Juvie
Nature-based imagery for hospitality licensing
Free Will
Old shed painting by Ozark nature artist Madison Woods. It features Ozark foraged pigments.
Old Shed, Red Sunset
Dinner Time, original artwork by Madison Woods. This is a painting from earth pigments.
Dinner Time
This Brahman I think is the best example of my growth as an artist.
Brahman Mama #905
Detour for a Thirsty Corvid is a painting from Ozark pigments in oils by Madison Woods of Wild Ozark. She's a naturalist, author, and artist living on 160 acres of wilderness in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas.

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