Melissa Franklin Sanchez

First Tulip

2022

A plein air painting of a moonrise in the Tuscany region of Italy. Artist Bio: Melissa Franklin Sanchez was born in 1984, in Warwickshire, England. In 2002 she graduated from her humanistic studies: Art, Music, English Literature, Performing Arts and Ballet. In 2003 she completed an intensive art foundation course at the Slade School of Art, London. She then enrolled at the Florence Academy of art, a school dedicated to the study of realistic and figurative art. She graduated with the three-year diploma in painting and was offers a 4th year of specialization. Today, Melissa is the director of the ‘6 week intensive workshop, Drawing, painting and Art History’ for the Florence Academy of Art and has been since since 2012. Her work is represented in both Europe and the USA, by Scriba, InPARADISO Gallery, Venice, Italy, Grenning Gallery...

An oil on copper painting. Risveglio, meaning "Awakening" in Italian, is a fitting title for this representation of spring blossoming outside the artist's window in her Tuscan farmho...

An oil painting on brass. Franklin Sanchez often uses her immediate surroundings in her Tuscany home for inspiration. This persimmon tree in her backyard is a subject she often comes...

A whimsical depiction of fall. The bright orange leaves from the tree line the ground outside a home. The leaves seem to enter the doorway on the left. Framed dimensions: 29.25 x 3...

A luminous close-up of blooming daffodils at the artist's home in Fiesole, Italy. The scene is painted with oil paint, on a brass panel, which results in a warm undertone, and semi-r...

"Shelter Island, Long Island, NY 01.01.2000" is an American Impressionist landscape oil painting of a Hamptons beach, the shore line of Shelter Island NY. This work exhibits gorgeous...

An abundance of flowers reach out to the sunlight competing for fresh air and space through which to enchant the passersby! But, they are white lilies and other favorite cuttings fr...

"Passing the treeline", oil painting of flowers by Peter Keizer. Peter Keizer is a Dutch painter and sculptor, born in 1961. He studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and began w...

"Look and look again", oil painting of flowers (spring) by Peter Keizer. Peter Keizer is a Dutch painter and sculptor, born in 1961. He studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and...

"All the way ?", oil painting on canvas by Peter Keizer. Peter Keizer is a Dutch painter and sculptor, born in 1961. He studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and began working a...

"If I could fly", oil painting of flowers (spring) by Peter Keizer. Peter Keizer is a Dutch painter and sculptor, born in 1961. He studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and bega...

"Loose and tight", oil painting on canvas by Peter Keizer. Peter Keizer is a Dutch painter and sculptor, born in 1961. He studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and began working...