Portmarnock, view of Howth, Co. Dublin, Ireland


Welcome!
I'm Mel ... and I'm an artist.... I always loved to paint, mainly for myself. But thanks to encouraging friends I started to get some of my artwork out there.

December 14, 2011

New blog and new site coming up

I moved to most of my art and updates to the new blog and new homepage is under construction.
Check out
http://melfranz.wordpress.com

June 06, 2011

Exhibition!

Next small exhibition coming up! 
Some of my paintings, old and new ones, will be on display at the end of the month. Ongoing exhibition starting at the last week of June until the end of the year!

Location:

Sparkasse Bad Saulgau, 
Werderstr. 3 
88348 Bad Saulgau





Humboldt

Already old news, but I took part in the Dawanda design competition and my wallpaper was among those to be picked and soon to be put up on the wall in one of the rooms at the Meininger Hotel in Berlin!

All designs to be found at
http://de.dawanda.com/partner/humboldt
Mine is the one of Lumikukka ^^

Opening of the Hotel will be on June 19th, 2011with a Dawanda Design market from 10 - 6 p.m.

Address: Meininger Hotel, Oranienburger Str. 67/68 in Berlin Mitte

Go and have a look if you are in town. Pity I won't  be able to make it coz I'm still stuck in Iceland ^^

April 10, 2011

New Blog

Started a new blog with the same old paintings.Was planning to move to wordpress some time ago but only know got it started. They have a few better features and also a better gallery in my opinion ^^

March 08, 2011

Break

Had nothing better to do than to change this

to this





and probably going to continue to change it next time I get near it... which will be some time in sommer...
Didn't like the grey sky anymore, probably because my mood was so bright ^^

January 29, 2011

Sketching

Bought some colors and also a set of oil crayons the other day to experiment with. Haven't used them before, so this is the first attempt. Inspiration was a photo taken by a friend of mine. Hope you dont mind Lucia ^^

January 20, 2011

From Iceland

Capturing the Iclandic beauty. Amazing landscape paintings by the artist Tolli.

http://asp.internet.is/tolliweb/

January 13, 2011

Exhibition in Vakiopaine, Jyväskylä, Finland!

Few of my paintings and beautiful photographs of Junko's (http://junkondo.blogspot.com/) are on display until the 6th of February in the bar Vakiopaine in Jyväskylä, Finland. If you fancy a beer drop by and have a look ^^


http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121141897956682&ref=notif&notif_t=event_wall

Moving

Four of my artworks have moved during the last months and I'm more than happy about it. Three found a new home in and around Dublin.





And one of my firsts and faveourites, the sleeping lion, made its way all the way up to Oulu, Finland :)

April 11, 2010

Taste of life (?)

Repainted it a dozen times... still not satisfied though.... but so be it.
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread. 

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is thats it's always just one persong encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one. 

- Paul Auster

Untitled

And another one....

Wannabe (?)

Staying in on a lazy Saturday....  felt like painting again.