Ink on Paper - SWTBT #1 - Original art by Melanie Circle

SWTBT #1 – Stories Waiting to Be Told
Mixed Media Abstract Work
Artist: Melanie Circle – Quadra Island

Description:

The first piece in Melanie Circle’s Stories Waiting to Be Told series sets the tone for a deeply intuitive body of work. Here, colour and gesture coalesce without plan or preconception. Scribbled thoughts and fragmented verse form the underlayer. Four colours are overlaid, misted, and allowed to drift across the paper, dissolving into one another like memory.

Melanie manipulates the wet surface with a Q-tip, brush, or cloth — lifting, rotating, wiping, layering. In time, silhouettes and shapes begin to rise: perhaps a figure in motion, or a conversation between light and shadow. But she doesn’t force it. This piece, like all in the series, is finished only when you begin to see what’s hidden inside.

Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
Series: Stories Waiting to Be Told
Mounting: Unframed
Dimensions: [7.5" x 5.5"]

A contemplative, one-of-a-kind piece that invites viewers to slow down and see what stories emerge.