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

Plein Air Painting Workshop

Solo show ' Primavera Senza Tempo'

16th April until 20th May 2011

In Paridiso,
Giardini della Biennale
Venezia

NEW WORKS

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 4^th 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