Sightless Artist Dazzles Fans with Her Masterful Works

To check out Madeleine Sabo’s Online Store, click here.

It is easy to take eyesight for granted, but to those who lose this precious sense, it can be overwhelming.

A lose of sight is even more devastating to an artist – a person whose life’s work and world revolves around creating art and seeing it evolve.

Local artist Madeleine Sabo knows the challenges first hand and despite her blindness continues to create her art. See Sabo’s work displayed at the Capitan Public Library through the end of April.

Blindness is debilitating, but as some of the masters have shown, it is not impossible to create art.

Throughout her entire life, Sabo has been in love with art and expressed herself through her creative artistic skills. In 2008, Sabo contracted MRSA, a type of bacteria that is resistant to certain antibiotics, resulting in a blood staph infection that left her with detached retinas. After many surgeries and drug therapy, Madeleine has only slight blurry black and white vision with some color perception in the periphery of her left eye.

As a person who does not give up, Sabo continues to develop and utilize her life skills as an artist. Prior to losing her sight, she painted in great detail with acrylics. Now, still using the same medium, she paints bigger, freer more abstract, more electric and more colorful paintings.

While painting is still her first love, Sabo has now taken on new new medium, clay. Ceramics have provided her with a rewarding art form using use her tactile skills. Her ceramic leaf bowls have become quite popular. And, she continues to work on a wood lathe, creating beautiful wooden vases and bowls. Because of her developed tactile touch, she prides herself in the satin like finishes applied to the wood. All of this – done by a woman who is almost completely blind.

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Sightless Artist Dazzles Fans with Her Masterful Works

To check out Madeleine Sabo’s Online Store, click here.