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Meet the Artist: Madeleine Elizabeth Harwell

           Madeleine Harwell (b. 2004, Sarasota, FL) graduated with honors from Florida State University (May, 2025) with a BA in Studio Art and a minor in Art Entrepreneurship. She runs a wholesale needlepoint design business, Madeleine Elizabeth, since she debuted as one of the youngest designers at the Spring Needlepoint Tradeshow in 2018. Madeleine is also a practicing studio artist that finds inspiration in the natural world. She works to encourage herself, and others, to slow down and appreciate their life and the world around them.  

               Her work has been featured on the back cover of Needlepoint Now magazine in the May/June issue in 2021, Needlework Retailer, and The Tale of Three Stitchers in the 2021 July/August issue of the American Needlepoint Guild Magazine. Outside of the needlepoint industry, Harwell has interned with two fine artists Sarah Painter and Cosby Hayes assisting in their mural work and studio practice. During the last year of her BA Degree she completed an Honors in the Major Thesis: Facilitating the Bridge Between Retrospection and Introspection: A Journey of Personal Discovery. Now, you can find Harwell live painting at Café Barbosso in Sarasota with her work for sale in their gallery.

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How she got started designing needlepoint...

Madeleine started needlepointing at the age of nine when she learned from Vickie Yohe of Needlepoint Studio in Sarasota, a local shop owner, in the store where her mother worked.  Madeleine excelled with her stitching and soon was creating her own 'stitch guides' picking her own threads, and helping ladies at the shop do the same!  Madeleine spent her time 'working' at the needlepoint store on the weekends and during her summers between school. This, in addition to her love for art, encouraged her to start designing her own needlepoint canvases.


Originally distributed by Oasis Needlepoint for the Spring Orlando show in 2018, she re-debuted as Madeleine Elizabeth (with the help of her parents) at the Destination Dallas show in 2019.
Supported and encouraged by family and friends, Madeleine is now the Artist & Designer behind Madeleine Elizabeth!
 

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About Me

I started Madeleine Elizabeth at the age of 14 and it has grown so much alongside me. Now, I am also a practicing studio artist, pursuing my passion for both traditional painting and the needle arts!

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