Still Life with Mouse Mixed-Media it was a natural progression

it was a natural progression to move outside the frustrating constraints of the two dimensional canvas

For this piece

there is a subtle tension between beautiful and unsettling elements

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Still Life with Mouse Mixed-Media it was a natural progressionDetails Artist Bio Shipping 8 x 11 cm 2013 Acrylic on Gesso Board Framed to 11 x 17 cm Melissa Hartley is a self taught artist, that studied graphic design and who has been working for the last 16 years in Publishing in Sydney and Edinburgh. In 2010 she decided to pick up the paint brush again and pursue her love of painting. Her compositions feature darkly poetic female portraits against undefined backgrounds, in a void or dream like state. These