Melissa McGill

My Imagination - Solitude, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

2022

Mid century inspired abstract stain painting on raw canvas in a natural maple strip frame. "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself." Michel de Montaigne...

Mid Century Modern inspired abstract painting on raw canvas in a natural maple frame. "I want to be alone, to find it nourishing, not just a waiting." Susan Sontag, Reborn: ...

Mid century modern inspired stain painting on raw canvas in a natural maple frame. "If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company." John Pau...

Mid century modern inspired abstract painting on raw canvas. "I miss you more than I remember you." On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong :: Painting :: Abstract :: This ...

Stephanie Visser, a native of southwestern Michigan, was educated at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids Michigan. She continued her education in fine arts and painting...

Mirtha Moreno Born in Havana, Cuba, in the late 70s during a well-documented time of religious and political oppression, abstract expressionist artist Mirtha Moreno, immigrated to th...

Artist Commentary: Created during Covid-19 with Lots of Layers, Paint and Texture. Keywords: Colorful, Happy, Joyful, colorfield, truth, covid19, 2020 Artist Biography: Melissa lives in a world where everyday is a creative and magical adventure full of color. Art came into Melissa's world full time after being laid off from her corporate sales job in January 2012. After her father’s death is 2013, Melissa started painting, art journaling, and playing with mixed media as a way of healing. As a creative artist, her work has been featured at the Newburyport Art Association, Chelmsford Art Association, SOWA Art Market in Boston, MA, Greenway Open Market in Boston, MA, Boston Arts Festival, Central Flea in Cambridge, MA, Squam Art Fair in Holderness NH, and the Providence Flea in Providence, RI. When Melissa is not creating some sort of magical art...

" The work resists framing in concepts, it overflows the contours and borders of the rational. It is through the presence of color, combined with an abstraction at times with express...