CORNELIA MACFADYEN
“I create because I breathe...it’s just life.”
Cornelia MacFadyen, Skyline #9
“As far back as I can remember art has been in my soul. It’s what feeds me.”
Cornelia MacFayden has engaged in drawing and painting, and in the last few years she has transitioned to photography. An artist at heart, her first art teacher was her Grandfather. He was a medical illustrator.
Cornelia MacFadyen, Skyline #36
“I remember being in his studio drawing while he was working. Before the end of the day, we would both stop, I'd come over to his drawing board and he and I would discuss the work he was working on. Then he'd come over to my table where I was working and we'd discuss what I was doing. I must have been 3 or 4 years old when we began doing that.”
Cornelia MacFadyen, Slyline #37
Her relationship with her grandfather began to be a peer to peer one, when they began to visit illustration sessions together. At the end of each day, her grandfather would stop work and they would critique each other’s work; what was good, what was bad, and where they needed to concentrate their efforts. He would teach her what she needed to know throughout her early career.
Cornelia MacFadyen, Skyline #24
MacFayden’s work shifted to landscape photography after the pandemic hit. She began exploring the city of New York, and found a new world occurring in her photos. Photography has provided a new form of expression that was not as present in her paintings.