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By Sea | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Melanie Biehle | Casa di LaValle in Seattle. Item made of wood compatible with minimalism and mid century modern style
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By Sea | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Melanie Biehle | Casa di LaValle in Seattle. Item made of wood compatible with minimalism and mid century modern style
By Sea | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Melanie Biehle | Casa di LaValle in Seattle. Item made of wood compatible with minimalism and mid century modern style
By Sea | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Melanie Biehle | Casa di LaValle in Seattle. Item made of wood compatible with minimalism and mid century modern style
By Sea | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Melanie Biehle | Casa di LaValle in Seattle. Item made of wood compatible with minimalism and mid century modern style
By Sea | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Melanie Biehle | Casa di LaValle in Seattle. Item made of wood compatible with minimalism and mid century modern style

Created and Sold by Melanie Biehle

Melanie Biehle

By Sea - Paintings

Featured In Casa di LaValle, Seattle, WA

Price $1,250

Shipping: UPS 7-14 days

Handmade

Woman Owned

Made In USA

DimensionsWeight
24H x 24W x 1.62D in
60.96H x 60.96W x 4.11D cm

ORIGINAL SOLD. Custom commissions based on this painting are available.

By Sea is part of the 2023 Destination Ongoing collection.

DESTINATION ONGOING

I want my art to feel the way that I feel when I’m on vacation.

Spacious. Curious. Relaxed and grateful. Inspired.

The thread of travel and place is one that I can assuredly follow, even as my art changes. It is a constant — something that I can feel certain of. It’s always provided me with inspiration when I have felt lost or stuck. It reminds me of who I am and what I value.

Destination Ongoing feels like a nod to where I’ve been and where I’m going, in art and life. How I continue to be touched by mood and place and how I’m led to express it.

My art is becoming more quiet and strong at the same time. The buzzing electric city vibes that used to inspire me have been replaced by glimpses of ancient towns. Dunes, bluffs, and cliffs have meshed together to become their own character. Features of rocks, canyons, and aerial views have been smoothed out to create something unique.

I invite you to find a sense of your own journey through these paintings — internal or external.

24W x 24H x 1.625 D inches
Acrylic, texture paste, and pencil on wood
Created in 2023
Artist's signature on back
Hanging wire installed

Item By Sea
Created by Melanie Biehle
As seen in Casa di LaValle, Seattle, WA
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Melanie Biehle
Meet the Creator

Melanie Biehle

Seattle, WA

Wescover creator since 2019
I want my art to feel like I feel when I’m on vacation.

Melanie Biehle creates atmospheric abstract paintings inspired by travel and place.

The artist grew up in rural Louisiana and has lived on the west coast for most of her adult life. She currently lives in the Seattle area with her husband, son, and pets.

Melanie became a painter in her 40s, after becoming a writer, a mother, and an interior and lifestyle photographer. Before that, she lived and worked in Los Angeles as a film marketer and optioned her romantic comedy screenplay.

The artist received a Master’s degree in psychology and later studied abstract painting and composition at Gage Academy of Art in Seattle. Melanie lists artists Richard Diebenkorn, Lee Krasner, and Joan Mitchell as major inspirations.

ARTIST STATEMENT
I want my art to feel like I feel when I’m on vacation.

Spacious. Curious. Relaxed. Inspired.

I create abstract paintings that are atmospheric expressions of place. The spirit of discovery, leisure, space, and time connects us, even when we are inspired by different locales.

While my paintings may have some basis in reality, they’re almost never focused on one specific location. Instead, they are an amalgam of energy, nature, architecture, color palettes, topographical aerial point-of-views, and memories of places that I have been.

When I create my paintings I vacillate between using oil and acrylic. The texture paste that I often use in my acrylic paintings allows me to express sensations I feel when I’m walking barefoot in the sand, calmed by ocean waves, and find a rough beach rock or beautiful shell whose patterns make me stop and study it. I sometimes use broken shells or rugged stones as tools to help create the work that they inspire, scratching or digging through layers of paint to form lines or textures.

I feel most at home, relaxed, and connected in or near the ocean and I spend as much time as possible on the Puget Sound beaches where I live. I’m grateful to be surrounded by so much natural inspiration.

In addition to the Pacific Northwest and the places that I travel to, I often revisit the feeling of Southern California in my work. I’ve been drawn to Los Angeles since I was a teenager, and I’ve had the opportunity to live there on two separate occasions. The light, palm trees, succulents, sage green and earthy desert colors, mid-century modern and Spanish style architecture, bright bougainvillea dripping off white stucco against blue skies, and the Pacific Ocean — these are some of the things that swirl together and allow me to create “my California”.