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.