POPPY MELIA
TREE POPPIES AND BUTTERFLIES
Limited edition of 85
Image Size: 520 mm x 345 mm
Paper Size: 600 mm x 410 mm
Actual colors may vary from the color on your screen
Price: $400 USD (unframed)
HERON WITH TROUT
Limited edition of 45
Image Size: 760 mm x 400 mm
Paper Size: 840 mm x 450 mm
Actual colors may vary from the color on your screen
Price: $470 USD (unframed)
SWAN LANDING
Limited edition of 85
Image Size: 400mm x 850 mm
Paper Size: 470 mm x 900 mm
Actual colors may vary from the color on your screen
$500 USD (unframed)
LILIES AND LIBELLULA
Limited edition of 85
Image Size: 420 mm x 165 mm
Paper Size: 520 mm x 250 mm
Actual colors may vary from the color on your screen
Price: $168 USD (unframed)
SWAN AND CYGNETS
Limited edition of 18
Image Size: 440 mm x 640 mm
Paper Size: 500 mm x 690 mm
(Larger prints of ‘Swan and Cygnets’ are also possible)
Actual colors may vary from the color on your screen
Price: $470 USD (unframed)
Free signed delivery worldwide
Giclee print on copper house cotton rag, embossed by copper house and individually signed by the artist with date on the back.
POPPY MELIA
POPPY MELIA (DUBLIN, 1966) IS AN IRISH ARTIST WITH AN INTERNATIONAL SENSIBILITY AND PRESENCE. IN 1989, AFTER GRADUATING FROM THE NATIONAL COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, SHE SPENT A YEAR PAINTING ON THE POLYNESIAN ISLANDS WITH HER MOTHER AND SISTER. ON RETURNING TO EUROPE HER DEBUT SOLO EXHIBITIONS IN LONDON AND IN DUBLIN WERE CRITICAL AND COMMERCIAL TRIUMPHS. SINCE THEN, POPPY HAS TRAVELED AND PAINTED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, DRAWING INSPIRATION FROM SOJOURNS IN NEPAL, CHINA, NEW ZEALAND, NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE, IN PARTICULAR, TUSCANY WHERE SHE HAS SUMMERED WITH HER FAMILY SINCE EARLY CHILDHOOD. HOWEVER, HER MAIN INSPIRATION IS ROOTED IN THE KERRY COUNTRYSIDE, ITS MOUNTAINS, LAKES, SEA, FLORA AND FAUNA, WHICH HAVE SURROUNDED HER SINCE CHILDHOOD. HER ART IS HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER IN THE PRINT MEDIA, LITERARY PUBLISHING AND SHE HAS APPEARED ON MANY TV AND RADIO PROGRAMS. HER WORK HANGS IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS THROUGHOUT EUROPE, AMERICA AND SOUTH AFRICA.
POPPY PAINTS HIGHLY DETAILED, REALISTIC, RHYTHMICAL WORKS, WHICH CAN OFTEN TAKE UP TO A YEAR TO COMPLETE. SINCE 2004 HER SUCCESS HAS MEANT THAT ALL OF HER ART IS SOLD BEFORE IT IS EVEN COMPLETED.
"HER PAINTINGS, MAINLY IN GOUACHE, ARE A JOY TO LOOK AT ... THERE IS A CAREFULLY ORCHESTRATED LINEAR CONSTRUCTION TO HER WORKS." IRISH INDEPENDENT
"HER CLEAR OBSERVATION OF HER SUBJECTS, EXACT AND SENSITIVE DRAWING ARE ALL WELL ABSORBED IN HER STRONGLY DECORATIVE COMPOSITIONS." THE IRISH TIMES