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 01, 2009

YOu

“You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.”
~ Fight Club

November 28, 2009


We all have forests in our minds, forests unexplored,unending.Each of us gets lost in the forest, everynight, alone.
-Ursula K. LeGuin

October 14, 2009

Again in the Dark....

I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness.

-Paul Auster, Man in the Dark

September 20, 2009

More dreams of flying...

http://www.janvonholleben.com/?page_id=4
What is the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
-H.D. Thoreau
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.

-H.D. Thoreau
I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately,
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life,
To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die,
Discover that I had not lived.

-H.D. Thoreau

the piano

In green

in blue

Desert(ed)

dancer

Birds

Le Poisson


Many man go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Pink Umbrella

Unfinished

The Lizard

Jazz


For Chris

Wings

Trust

Red Butterflies

blue phone



Finnish silence...

Wings

MoNkEy bUsiNesS

Siesta

Playtime

Adaptation

On the edge

WHy sO sEriOuS?

Watch out

Zara


pout and surprise


Man in the Dark

Alanis Morissette sings Isn’t it ironic. Isn’t it ironic to suffer from insomnia while reading a book about a man who suffers from the very same thing lying awake in the dark making up stories? Am I making up my own story you may ask. My question would be in return: Isn’t everyone making up their own stories as they go along the way? With every thought that crosses our minds and every decision we make we write and are composer of our own stories. So lying awake in the dark with the noise of wind rattling through the trees determining the atmosphere I was wondering about my own story. With every decision we make, being it as simple as deciding to go left or right, we chose one possibility and determine all further outcomes from that point. Before we make that decision all options are open and the possibilities are endless but as soon as we pick one all the other ones are unimportant and gone.