Madeleine Akira Blume is a watercolorist who’s love for art goes back as far as she can remember. She was born in the Bay Area of California in the early 2000's, and spent her entire childhood deeply enamored by the world of art. Most afternoons and math classes were spent drawing away, almost entirely in graphite pencils. These early years of creating her first black and white artworks in pencil helped her to learn the ways of form, light and shadows, which also helped her to appreciate and learn to see the beauty that lies within the details of all living things.

When she was ten, she started to bring color into her drawings with watercolor, and she has been working with watercolor ever since. This love for art and watercolors was nurtured over the years by her family, many of which have lived on Maui since the 1980's, and so she was immensely inspired by the islands unforgettable beauty and Mana as she came back to the islands throughout her childhood.

In summer of 2020, amidst the heights of the Pandemic, Madeleine came to Maui at the age of sixteen to help her grandpa with the ordeals of a bad case of cataracts. Once here, she was exactly where she knew she was meant to be, and began finding her way in the community of Maui. She has been a member of the Lahaina Art Society since 2022, and to this day, you can find her and all of her watercolors in person at the Lahaina Art Society's weekly weekend art fairs on Friday in Lahaina, as well as the Saturday Maui Swap Meet in Kahului.