Artwork Description

This painting is framed as shown in the second photo. The framed size is 57 x 57 cm. There is also an engraved wooden plate with the title and artist's name.

"Ghost in the shadows" is from my series titled "The Tarnished Age". To explain the series a bit it is an ode to the long tradition of Dutch still life painting. Emerging out of the void the subjects allude to the transitory nature of existence; to life and death. It is time suspended.

Still life asks us to stop and consider the familiar, simply seeing and then hopefully discovering further depths of hidden wonder within it. It urges us to look more closely as we passively observe, something rarely done anymore. Still life contrasts with our lives today - dynamic and frenetic, always moving and constantly shifting.

I desire to make these images more permanent by freezing a moment in time. The animals depicted in this series are all critically endangered species, showing the briefness and fragility of their and other forms of life. This helps remind us of the turbulent relationship man has with nature, a warning about our mortality and self-righteous morality.

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Medium

Acrylic on gessoboard

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All art by Melissa Hartley

Banksias in a silver ornate metal vessel casting a shadow on a wooden tableBlue petunias in pot with purple lamp and blue satinStill life contrasts with our lives today which are dynamic, moving and constantly shifting, so there is definitely a strange irony in my work. I’m trying to suspend time, but it is still a reminder of our mortality, transience, and that things will fade and pass. Time becomes precious.
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