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.

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.

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