Melanie Parke’s imagery of rustic kitchen tables, dish shelves, entryways and window nooks congregate to suggest snug gathering spots and welcome respites of interiority.
Set up with recognizable still life identifiers — a stem casually placed in a glass jar, fruit loosely strewn on a table top, ceramic tumblers or a teapot — a convivial human presence is noted, not through bodies but close narratives between objects. Proximities between a window and its reflection on the table top establishes that light is the main character. Refractions move across a surface and the effect makes a chimera of things — a mutation — lifting the weight of the familiar into a fresh reverie.
A room’s pitch can be read through highly decorated floral patterns or tonal color fields shifting slightly to enliven or quiet the mood. Whether euphoric or contemplative, every perspective leads to a preoccupation of chasing light.
Cézanne’s idea of passing through objects is something Parke thinks about a lot. Even when her pattern engages a seemingly uniform plane, transparencies never end, pass through walls, and keep the eye going.
Parke’s paint handling varies from multilayered to wet on wet, always textured, always nuanced.
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$3,500
H 24 in W 24 in D 1.75 in
Emerald Rain - Contemporary Still Life Flowers Fruit Landscape Green, 2024
By Melanie Parke
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary oil painting on canvas, a bright and inviting interior scene is set with a still life with arrangements of flowers in a vase and a glass pitcher, a pear and lemo...
Canvas, Oil
$5,800
H 36 in W 36 in D 1.75 in
Lazuli Rose - Contemporary Peach Still Life Nasturtiums Pears Blue Teapot, 2025
By Melanie Parke
Located in Kent, CT
Contemporary painting in oil on canvas with a bright and inviting interior scene. A still life arrangement of pears, a painted teapot, and two vases, one with Nasturtiums and another...
Canvas, Oil
$9,700
H 48 in W 52 in D 1.25 in
Flying Aster - Contemporary Still Life Yellow Fruit Botanical Red Blue, 2024
By Melanie Parke
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary oil painting on canvas, a dining room interior scene is vibrant and colorful with an arrangement of flowers in a painted vase next to blue and white China teapot...
Canvas, Oil
$3,500
H 24 in W 24 in D 1.75 in
Porcelain Red - Lake Landscape Window Flowers Fruit Botanical Still Life, 2024
By Melanie Parke
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary painting in oil on canvas, a cheerful interior scene is bright and inviting with a still life arrangement of red poppies, red flowers and pale pink dahlias in a ...
Canvas, Oil
$3,500
H 28 in W 22 in D 1.75 in
Emerald Manner - Contemporary Still Life Flowers Fruit Landscape Green, 2024
By Melanie Parke
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary oil painting on canvas, a bright and inviting interior scene is set with a still life arrangement of flowers in a green bottle, painted patterned china and fruit...
Canvas, Oil
$6,900
H 42 in W 38 in D 1.5 in
Peachy - Peaches Pine Trees Tulips Botanical Fruit Flowers Lake Landscape, 2019
By Melanie Parke
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary oil painting on canvas, a Michigan lake landscape with pine trees sets the backdrop for a still life arrangement of pink, white and orange flowers on a table wit...
Canvas, Oil
$5,500
H 40 in W 30 in D 2 in
Arezzo Garden Square - Yellow Red Chrysanthemum Flowers Fruit Still Life, 2019
By Melanie Parke
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary still life painting in oil on canvas, a clear glass vase holds bright lush chrysanthemum blossoms in coral red and pink beside orange and yellow fruits in a frui...
Canvas, Oil
$6,900
H 38 in W 42 in D 1.75 in
Figs and Feathers - Contemporary Interior White Birds Green Plants Fruit, 2018
By Melanie Parke
Located in Kent, CT
Contemporary painting in oil on canvas with a bright and inviting interior scene. A still life arrangement of three potted plants with lush green leaves beside two white birds, and a...
Canvas, Oil