"Crab Legs" Original 8x8 Acrylic Painting and "Baby Angel" Original 5x7 Acrylic Painting
Today it was pouring rain and I finished up my last paintings for the Tinman Gallery show at the end of March. I packed everything up and took it down there. They will be hanging the work at the same time I fly back from New Zealand on the 24th of March and the opening is March 27th. Please contact www.tinmanartworks.com for more information regarding the show.
Contact me: sirenagraphics@hotmail.com
Artist Melissa Cole often finds herself snorkeling with salmon, smooching manatees, and swimming with tiger sharks. It is from these amazing encounters that she derives much of the inspiration for her vividly colored, heavily textured and patterned acrylic paintings.
Cole was born in Oregon and raised in London, Hong Kong, and India. She graduated from Oregon State University with a degree in Zoology and spent time as a naturalist guide in Mexico. She’s written over 30 children’s natural history books and travels with her husband Brandon, who is a wildlife photographer specializing in marine life. Melissa has always dabbled in art, but has spent the last ten years fully devoted to it. She is strongly influenced by ethnic patterns, which she sees in her travels abroad. “You’ll find lots of dots, and a distinct border pattern in each of my pieces.” Her work is found in galleries ranging from Stephan Fine Arts in Anchorage, Alaska to The Wild Side Gallery in Key West, Florida.
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These are wonderful little paintings. I like them very much!
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