‘Lee Madgwick is a mad, brilliant visionary. His pictures of tranquil desolation evoke a melancholy future he somehow remembers. I’ve got one of Lee’s prints on my wall. The M6 is endless silent undergrowth, Forton Services a silent, long-deserted ruin. It cheers me up every day.’ Ian Martin – Writer, producer and columnist

‘Lee Madgwick’s work is captivating, beautiful, soulful, and he has the ability to make an urban focus sit comfortably in a country setting. Edgy, occasionally sinister, with the juxtaposition is completely relatable. If you feel that you never fit in, and you are constantly trying to conform, finally an artist that makes you feel that you are not the only one.’ Tom Kerridge – Chef, TV presenter, author and restaurateur

‘Some artists have good ideas that tell you a story, some have unlimited skill that makes you almost jealous of their patience and the vision, and a rare few have the ability to keep you coming back time and again. Whether it’s revisiting familiar images and finding something new, or diving into new worlds he has created, Lee scores highly in each of these categories. So mathematically speaking he can only be classed as a genius.’ Ricky Wilson – Singer, songwriter and TV and radio presenter 

‘Lee Madgwick’s work always makes me think of a brooding kind of cinema. It’s as though Alfred Hitchcock had possessed Edward Hopper.’ Douglas Henshall – TV, film and stage actor

‘[Lee] paints these really eerie pictures of fantasy abandoned buildings, among other things. It’s such a mood!’ Marina Hyde – Journalist, Guardian columnist

‘Lee Madgwick’s paintings have the unearthly power of a disturbing dream in which familiar places are cut adrift from everything reassuring and become outposts in a desolate spinal landscape. But a dream is indistinct, and fades; here they are with the unfading, scrupulous, fascinating detail of a Dutch Master. Silence hangs over every canvas and poetry is found in meticulous renderings of every form of decay. Not death, though – his scenes are alive. The natural world thrives and reclaims, people have been here recently (thought they might not have meant well), and the weather is about to change.‘ Will Wiles – Author and journalist

‘I love Lee Madgwick’s eerie, Gothic and beautiful work – it has a strange capacity to be both moving and unnerving, and there’s no-one else quite like him.’ Sarah Perry – Writer and novelist

‘I just love Lee’s work. What an extraordinary painter’. Richard Osman – TV presenter, producer, comedian and writer

‘Lee Madgwick is one of my absolute favourite artists, and I get huge joy every day from having his work on my wall.’ Adam Kay – Author, script-writer and comedian

‘I love Lee’s work, and I’m extremely lucky that his images have provided the cover art for two of my books. Lee’s paintings are both beautiful and unsettling, conveying a powerful sense of the uncanny with quiet precision. The work is potent, haunting, strange, humorous and utterly distinctive.’ Paul Bassett Davies – Writer, director and producer

‘[Lee paints] memories long forgotten just out of reach of your conscious mind.’ Bob Mortimer – Comedian, presenter and actor

‘Lee specialises in juxtaposing abandoned, derelict urban scenes in secluded rural locations. Basically run-down estates in run-down estates. He somehow captures the sense of dark things happening behind closed doors, while presenting a perfectly chirpy looking, colourful landscape.’ Banksy – Street artist, political activist and film director

‘Beautiful and haunting’ Derren Brown – Mentalist, illusionist, painter and author

‘..Madgwick’s paintings are at once quaint, savage, raw, toothy and sinister. They are cinematically dystopian. A pop culture tag line might describe them as George Orwell meets the colour of the Gorillaz, backed up by the menace of the League of Gentlemen, all portrayed with a pinch of Storm Thorgerson, and transported to Terrance Malick’s Badlands, albeit in Britain, of course… As far as images of Britain go, these are some of the funniest, finest and dangerously engaging I’ve seen. Capturing the power, glory, grime and infamy of a country is one thing, nailing the underlying mood and malevolence of our culture is another.’ Hayden Case – Journalist

‘A post apocalyptic Edward Hopper, where the views of the American province are opposed those of the English countryside. Houses ruined by the sloping roof, lush forests, streams, suspended atmospheres, frozen in an eternal instant.’ La Repubblica – Italian daily newspaper