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The Light You Crave | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Melanie Biehle. Item composed of wood
The Light You Crave | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Melanie Biehle. Item composed of wood
The Light You Crave | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Melanie Biehle. Item composed of wood
The Light You Crave | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Melanie Biehle. Item composed of wood

Created and Sold by Melanie Biehle

Melanie Biehle

The Light You Crave - Paintings

Price $850

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Estimated Arrival: December 8, 2024

Handmade

Woman Owned

Made In USA

DimensionsWeight
20H x 20W x 1.63D in
50.8H x 50.8W x 4.13D cm

The Light You Crave feels like the very beginning of a quiet morning tucked away in mountains and lakes. This painting is part of Postcards From The Future.

Postcards From The Future is an abstract painting collection born of deep internal work. An artist retreat and a vision board. Meditation and hibernation. A sense of restlessness. A longing for more. The balance of being open and making plans. Being an active participant in life.

I see these paintings as moments I’m manifesting. Views that I crave. And while they are personal desires sprung from within, I know them to be universal as well. We all have unlived lives within us. The potential of alternate realities. Timelines yet to come. Each day we live and every choice we make can bring us closer to what we desire – our highest self or an ideal life. I believe that because I’m living it – the life I have now was once just pictures on my vision board, torn from magazines. Journal entries where I poured my creative longings out for the Universe to read.
These paintings remind me of that power. The power we have to change.

20W x 20H x 1.625 D inches
Acrylic on wood
Created in 2022
Artist's signature on back
Hanging wire installed

Item The Light You Crave
Created by Melanie Biehle
As seen in Creator's Studio, Everett, 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”.