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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Lake on the Mountain - Red Pink Flowers Butterfly Female Figure Peach, 2021
By Melanie Parke
Located in Kent, CT
A female figure in red sits beside a pink and black butterfly, surrounded by brightly colored flowers in red and bright pink and a black urn next to a tree with green leaves in the c...
Gouache, Archival Paper
$27,225
H 16.5 in W 24 in
Le Quai de Tournelle - Impressionist Cityscape Gouache by Eugene Galien-Laloue
By Eugene Galien-Laloue
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist gouache on paper figures in landscape circa 1910 by French painter Eugene Galien-Laloue. The piece depicts a street scene at the Quai de la Tournelle...
Gouache, Paper
$42,000
H 33 in W 43 in D 2 in
Leaving the Factory- American Scene Watercolor Painting-WPA Painter
Located in Marco Island, FL
David Fredenthal captures the chaotic rush of men leaving their jobs at the factory. The setting is possibly the Rouge Factory, one of Henry Ford's most important and earliest fact...
Gouache, Archival Paper
Figures at a mill
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
English school, 18th Century Figures at a mill Gouache on paper 4.5/8 x 7.1/2 in. (11.8 x 19 cm.)
Paper, Gouache
$1,748Sale Price|20% Off
H 16.54 in W 19.69 in
Cabane de Cacharel, Modern Gouache on Paper, Signed, Circa 1950s
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Cabane de Cacharel', gouache on paper, by Yves Brayer (circa 1950s). In the Camargue region of Southern France, there is an historic Mas (farmhouse / ranch) called Cacharel, nearby ...
Paper, Gouache
$375
H 6 in W 8 in
"013 - Plein Air-Morrison, CO" (2022) By Judd Mercer, Gouache Painting
By Judd Mercer
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's (US based) "013 - Plein Air-Morrison, CO" is a gouache painting depicting a snowy mountainscape. Artist bio/statement Judd Mercer is a contemporary landscape painter a...
Paper, Gouache
The Three Glorious
By Jean Michel Noquet
Located in Pasadena, CA
Born in Montpellier on April 27, 1950. Self-taught, very early influenced by the school landscaping 19th century, the work of Jean-Michel Noquet is made of spaces mariners, bridges a...
Gouache
Jo Haran, Tropical Haven, Original floral painting
By Jo Haran
Located in Deddington, GB
Tropical Haven by Jo Haran [2021] original Watercolour, gouache and gesso Image size: H:49 cm x W:66 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:52.5 cm x W:69.5 ...
Gesso, Watercolor, Gouache
$35,000
H 14.25 in W 19 in
Pontiac Ventura Ad Photo Realism Vintage Cars Automobilia
By Arthur Fitzpatrick
Located in Miami, FL
The present Arthur "Art" Fitzpatrick & Van Kaufman collaborative automobile ad painting goes beyond motoring culture and ventures deeply into the realm of fine art. It would not ...
Mixed Media, Gouache, Illustration Board
$3,465
H 31 in W 26 in D 2 in
ECHO IV - Painted Mesh Screen Over Paper Depicting Light of the Southern U.S.
By Heather Hartman
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Echo IV is a composite of images collected from my daily surroundings (light, architecture, and botanical forms) combined and reimagined as an attempt to grapple with larger questions of ecology and mutability. Layers of paper and cut Tyvek are painted and manipulated beneath the surface – pushed and pulled in and out of focus...
Oil, Polyester, Acrylic, Gouache
$266
H 7.88 in W 14.18 in D 0.04 in
The Bawdy Wind that Kisses all it meets, Rosie Phipps, Landscape painting, 2022
By Rosie Phipps
Located in Deddington, GB
The Bawdy Wind that Kisses All it meets by Rosie Phipps [2022] original and hand signed by the artist Watercolour and Gouache on Paper Image size: H:10 cm x W:26 cm Complete Size of...
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
$2,700
H 20 in W 30 in
"Double Hooded" City scene, brightly colored, acrylic gouache on panel
By Branche Coverdale
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Double Hooded" is an original piece by Branche Coverdale and is made from acrylic gouache on wood panel. This piece measures 20"h ...
Acrylic, Gouache, Panel
$2,400
H 26 in W 32 in
"Third Wheel" City scene/ figurative illustration, acrylic gouache on rag paper
By Branche Coverdale
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Third Wheel" is an original piece by Branche Coverdale and is made from acrylic gouache on Stonehenge rag paper. This piece measur...
Acrylic, Gouache, Rag Paper
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H 30 in W 40 in D 1.5 in
Sisters, Two Women in Patterned Shirts on Floral Print Couch, Pink Background
By Melanie Parke
Located in Kent, CT
Melanie Parke filters and reconstructs pastoral and bucolic still life settings that emerge from her own life through the ideology of memory. Flowers bind the artist to friendships a...
Canvas, Oil