Melanie Perkins

19 January 2010

Compositions in Blue

Oil on gesso panel; 16.2cm x 22.9cm. Original painting for sale: £200, unframed.

Oil on gesso panel; 19.6cm x 16.2cm. Original painting for sale: £200, unframed.

18 January 2010

Yellow Corners

Yellow corner 1. Oil on gesso panel; 14.9cm x 14.9cm. Original painting for sale: £200, unframed.

Yellow corner 2. Oil on gesso panel; 14.9cm x 14.9cm. Original painting for sale: £200, unframed.

17 January 2010

Composition on Yellow

Composition on yellow. Oil on gesso panel; 24.7cm x 24.7cm.

Detail.

Wych Elm Book

Handmade plain paper notebook, with Japanese binding and print of wych elm (Ulmus glabra) on cover. For sale: £9.

Composition on Blue

Composition on blue. Oil on gesso panel; 14.8cm x 14.8cm. Original painting for sale: £200, unframed.

15 January 2010

Monochrome no1

Encaustic on gesso panel; 14.9cm x 14.9cm.

Shifting Sky

Watercolour and sgraffito on gesso panel; 7.9cm x 14.8cm.

10 January 2010

9 January 2010

Composition of beech branch (Fagus sylvatica) and honesty seed heads (Lunaria annua). Watercolour on paper; 23.5cm x 36.0cm. Selected for exhibition at the Society of Botanical Artists Silver Jubilee exhibition at Westminster Central Hall, London SW1, Friday 16th to Sunday 25th April 2010. Original painting sold. Giclee prints available to order: £40.

Detail.

4 January 2010

Winter in Glasgow

Digitally manipulated photographs of bare trees in Queen's Park, inspired by the fairytale weather we're experiencing in Glasgow this winter, and by the work of 2009 Turner Prize winner Richard Wright.

3 January 2010

Silver Birch Bark (25 Years Old)

Monochrome study of the tones and textures of the ageing bark of a silver birch (Betula pendula). Ink, watercolour and sgraffito on board; 29.7cm x 22.9cm. Selected for exhibition at the Society of Botanical Artists Silver Jubilee exhibition at Westminster Central Hall, London SW1, Friday 16th to Sunday 25th April 2010. Original artwork sold. Giclee prints available to order: £40.

31 December 2009

Silver Birch / Leaf

A study is of a dead leaf from a silver birch (Betula pendula). Silverleaf on board; 14.9cm x 7.7cm. This particular artwork is sold, but a similar version can be commissioned for £50.

30 December 2009

Sgraffito

Ink and sgraffito on board; 22.8cm x 16.1cm.

20 November 2009

Donguri Project

Donguri is Japanese for acorn. This is my first drawing for the Dunguri project I'm working on with artist / designer Zeynep Arman - see the link on the right.