Painting by Melissa Ritchie 59 Artworks Sold

Famille est Éternelle

Oil, Canvas, Framed by Artist

32.5cm (W) x 42.5cm (H) x 4cm (D)

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Framed by Artist

A$1,740

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Artwork Description

My still life paintings are careful composition full of allegories, which capture a moment in time where all represented items are meaningful beyond the composition.

“Famille est Éternelle” (Family is forever) is an exploration of lineage, love, and the fragile yet resilient threads that bind generations of women. Through six blush and white roses at varying stages of bloom, held in three distinct glass vessels, I seek to evoke the lives and interwoven stories of three women—perhaps grandmother, mother, daughter—and the evolving nature of their relationships.

Artist Bio

Born in Georgia USA in 1978, Melissa moved to Australian as a baby and grew up in Windang, on the South Coast NSW. Melissa established a career in advertising since 1999, and started portrait and still life painting in 2012. Melissa has been a finalist in many Australian Art Prizes including the Archibald Prize, Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Kennedy Prize, Kilgour Prize, Pirtek Still Life Award, Shirley Hannan Portrait Prize, Brisbane Portrait Prize, Black Swan Portraiture Prize, Portia Geach Memorial Art Award, John Copes Portrait Prize and the Percival Portrait Prize. Melissa won Wollongong Art Gallery’s ‘Postcodes from the Edge Art Prize’ in 2016.

Commissions

Melissa's studio is in Wollongong‚ NSW