A framed print sits still. Sheer curtains let Madeline LeBlanc’s artwork shift with daylight — colour and line in motion, not a poster on glass.
A framed print stays still. Sheer curtains shift with the light — and that is why Madeline LeBlanc’s artwork works differently when it moves.
Her Wildflowers (2024) series on madelineleblanc.ca is built around natural forms — petals unfurling, stems crossing, light passing through translucent layers. You see the same sensibility in the Secret Garden (2023) works. Both series treat light as a material, not an afterthought.
Draped at a window, a Flutter curtain made from one of these original drawings does what the gallery wall cannot: the image changes with the hour. Morning sun pushes through the sheer fabric and the pencil lines soften. Late afternoon turns the colour fields to amber. At night under lamp light, the darker tones recede and the lighter washes pull forward.
This is not accidental — Madeline’s surrealist background (traceable through her Surrealist Works of 2021–2022) means she is always thinking about how an image flickers between states. A curtain is not a poster. It is architecture — light, fabric, colour, and time all at once.
Madeline’s designs were already doing this work in her Secret Garden paintings. The curtain format just gives daylight a role in the composition. See the full collection at Curtains.