Friday 18 January 2013

New works in progress







2012







'Always Dreaming' oil on canvas



'The Morning after yesterday' oil on canvas


'Afterwards' oil on canvas

'Poppy fields' oil on canvas


'September' oil on canvas
'At the Mc Cummings' Oil on canvas


'From my studio' oil on copper plate

'Bed' oil on canvas

'At home' oil on copper panel

'Bedroom Interior' oil on copper panel

Tuesday 19 April 2011

Monday 19 July 2010

BIOGRAPHY


Melissa Franklin Sanchez was born in 1984, in Warwickshire, England.
In 2002 she graduated from her humanistic studies: Art, Music, English Literature, Performing Arts and Ballet.
In the summer of 2003 she completed an intensive art foundation course at the Slade School of Art, London. She then enrolled at the Florence Academy of art where she graduated with the three-year diploma in painting and a 4th year of specialization.
Her work is currently represented by Scriba Gallery, Venice, Italy, W. H. Patterson, London, the Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY , Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme Ct, Ann Long Fine Art, Charleston, South Carolina and Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas.
Melissa’s love of Italy, its culture, beauty and tradition will continue to be an inspiration for her life and her work.

Exhibitions

2010                Art Power, Concilio Europeo dell Arte, Venezia, Italia
                        Local Landscape, Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, USA
                        The Lure of Florence, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas,USA
                        The Florence Academy of Art, Alumni Exhibition, Florence,Italia
                        200 anos, vivarium novum, Roma, Italia.
2009                    Paul S. Brown and the Florence Academy of Art Select, Patterson Gallery, London, UK.
St Francesco e Santa Chiara, Massa, Palazzo Ducale, Italia
Exposicion de pintura clasica realista de artistas venezolanos, Isttituto  Portoghese, Roma, Italia
Passion for Painting, Grenning gallery, Sag Harbor, NY,USA

2008                    All Paintings Great and Small, The Cooley Gallery, Old               
Lyme, CT,USA
San Francesco, Massa, Palazzo Ducale, Italia
Local Landscapes, Sag Harbor, NY,USA
Ten years, Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY,USA
Young Collectors exhibition, Ann Long Fine Arts, Charleston SC,USA
The Florence Academy of Art, Alumni exhibition
Patterson Gallery London, Uk



2007               Local Landscapes, Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY,USA
Studio Selects, Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor NY.USA
The Florence Academy of Art Alumni exhibition, Florence, Italy

2006 New Studio Works and Plein Air Landscape Show, Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor NY