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Lia Melia
 
 
About the Artist


I am always looking for new ways in which to explore my creativity. The fluidity of melding powdered pigments with solvent based paints on aluminium suits my love of representing inner states and outer forms (like the sea). While some of my paintings can be quite representational, or look a bit like something real, the truth is, I want the viewer to see what they will; and, actually, to complete my art.

 
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Gethsemane

2008
pigents and solvents on aluminium
61cm x 61cm

Regeneration2

2008
Paint, Pigment and solvents on aluminium
61cm x 61cm

Regeneration2
Part 2 of a triptych called Regeneration

Regeneration 1

2008
Paint, Pigment and solvents on aluminium
51cm x 51cm

Regeneration 1
Part 1 of a triptych called Regenation

Cannon Beach

2009
Paint, Pigment and solvents on aluminium
62cms x 44cms

Cannon Beach

Not dark yet

2009
Paint, powdered pigments, solvents on aluminium
51cms square

My Seas 2

2009
Paint, powdered pigments, solvents on aluminium
61cms square

Silence like Thunder

2009
Paint, powdered pigments, solvents on aluminium
61cms square

Dreamsnatcher

2009
Paint, powdered pigments, solvents on aluminium
82 x 61 cms

Dreamsnatcher

No Wings To Fly

2009
Paint, powdered pigments, solvents on aluminium
61 cms Square

The Elegance Of Twins

2009
Paint, powdered pigments, solvents on aluminium
61 cms square

Deserted Room

2009
Paint, powdered pigments, solvents on aluminium
61cms square

His

2009
Paint, powdered pigments, solvents on glass
55cms x 38 cms

Unashamed, masculine energy, the beast within, but also the pain of the modern man, living within the rules of our society.

Fired Earth

2009
Paint, powdered pigments, solvents on aluminium
450cms square

The Art Of Shooting Swallows

2009
Paint, powdered pigments, solvents on aluminium
82cms x 61 cms

In The Dying Of Anything

2009
Paint, powdered pigments, solvents on aluminium
51cms square

Wasteland

2009
Paint, powdered pigments, solvents on aluminium
61cms square unframed

Burnt Out

2009
Paint, powdered pigments, solvents on aluminium
51cms square

Regeneration 3

2008
Paint, powdered pigments, solvents on aluminium
51cms square

A Man of Sorrows

2009
Paint, powdered pigments, solvents on glass
43.5 cms x 38.5 cms

I recently went to a great performance of Handel's Messiah in Birmingham, England, and was entranced by the air "He was despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief." It made me cry, and I remained haunted by it, wondering how I could paint the musical experience. It was still in my mind a few days later in the Barber Institute in Birmingham University when I saw Orazio's 17th century marble relief of "The Man of Sorrows", a tearful face, which made me think of painting a portrait. I was struck by the synchronicity.

Prometheus Bound

2009
Paint, powdered pigments, solvents on 6mm glass
58cms x 42cms unframed

We create the ties that bind us

Woman who runs with wolves

2009
Paint, powdered pigments, solvents on 6mm glass
58cms x 42cms unframed

C.P.Estes wrote a wonderful book called "Women Who Run With The Wolves", which explores the creativity of the "wild" woman. I painted about that. The figure is deliberately androgynous:a womam able to hunt, fight for, and defend her loves.

Alienation

2009
Paint, powdered pigments, solvents on aluminium
61 cms square unframed

There are times when we all feel alienated from our selves; we look into the mirror, and the mirror shatters.
 
Education and biography
1965- Foundation Art Course at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology

1994 – 1999 Quayside Gallery in St. Ives, Cambridge,

1999 – 2004 Primavera, Cambridge,

2001- onwards The Old Fire Engine House Gallery, Ely.
Primavera, Cambridge

2002-2005 Battersea A/F with Quayside Gallery, Isle of Skye

2002, July-August Solo Exhibition at the Old Fire Engine House Gallery.

2002, November, Dublin 2002 Art Fair, with Quayside gallery, Isle of Skye.

2003, May A/F Bristol, with Quayside gallery, Isle of Skye

2003 – Private commission 100 pieces for Bioprogress.

2003 December, one of 891 artists from 56 countries attending the Florence Bienalle, sponsored by an Eastern Arts grant. An excellent private critique from Dr. John Spike, art critic and historian. Invited to return, 2005, but unable to attend due to ill health.

2004- Opening exhibition, Dec, Stock Gallery, nr. Chelmsford. One of stable of artists 2005.

2005 – May -Animals exhibition Stock Gallery

2005 – The garden, mixed exhibition, Ely Old Fire Engine House gallery

2005- Work selling through Marcus Gallery, Birmingham

2005 – Work selling through Buckenham Gallery, Southwold

2004-5 Cambridge Open Studio spring and winter exhibitions

2006, March 2nd to 27th- “Looking Up”, solo at The Old Fire Engine House Gallery, Ely

2007, June, solo at Buckenham Gallery, Southwold.
2007, June, solo at Marcus Galleries Birmingham
2007 mixed exhibition at Cambridge galleries, Whittlesford
2008 July mixed exhibition at Cambridge Galleries, Whittlesford
 
Future shows
2009, October, showing at Cambridge Galleries Whittlesford,
 
Website:  www.liamelia.com
 
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