Paintings and Photographs inspired by the Exmoor Contryside rss_feed/rss_1.xml en-gb Paintings and Photography david@melodyart.com www.melodyart.com We have now added a range of photography by David Hawtin. I have been taking photos for many years but had been spurred on by Melody to make 12 pictures available for our closing exhibition at our Gallery in Alresford. What fun and quite a challenge, choosing frames and pictures, but it has been so good to finally spend time thinking about my photographs. I do hope you enjoy those I have selected, I have many more to prepare at some future date. We are continuing our search for a new location and hope to have some exciting news soon. http://www.melodyart.co.uk/photography.html 05 Nov 2009 10:00:13 GMT http:/// 05 Nov 2009 10:00:13 GMT Melody and I are continuing to update the website, original paintings and prints will, in future, include pricing information. I will also be including a new range of paintings and prints soon. In the meantime our plans to relocate are progressing, so please keep watching the website for news of our new location. http://www.melodyart.co.uk/ 05 Nov 2009 10:00:13 GMT We have now updated our Animal and Wildlife section adding several new pet portraits. Please enquire if you would like to commission a pet portrait. Melody can work from photos supplied by you, creating a painting in oil or acrylic on paper or canvas. Once painted, we are able to offer Giclée prints and also offer personal greeting cards of your painting We hope you are enjoying the site, I still have many new paintings to prepare and display. http://www.melodyart.co.uk/animal_index.htm 05 Nov 2009 10:00:13 GMT New paintings and print options added to the floral section, with latest pricing and framing options added to many pictures in this category. We do hope you continue to enjoy the work displayed so far, I still have many pictures and much work to bring the site fully up to date. http://www.melodyart.co.uk/love_mum.html 05 Nov 2009 10:00:13 GMT Summer by the sea a photograph of Minehead seafront and a Victorian seating area. Personaly I love these areas, a real throw back in history but such a striking image. http://www.melodyart.co.uk/photography/david/architectural/summer_by_the_sea_photograph.html 21 Nov 2009 17:27:22 GMT Photography and fine art david@melodyart.co.uk Melody Art has now re located to Porlock in Exmoor, please view our contact page for further information as to our location and contact details. We are pleased to have two galleries, our main gallery and studio where we display mainly original paintings by Melody and our High Street Gallery where we have mainly prints and photographs. We have also just added a number of new paintings to our landscape range. We look forward to seeing you. 28 Sep 2010 15:10:00 GMT Photography and fine art david@melodyart.com We are pleased to say that the website now has the facility for on line ordering and payments, should you experience any difficulty please drop us an email with a brief description of the issue. 17 Aug 2011 14:04:00 GMT Photography and fine art david@melodyart.com New photographs have now been added to the site. We are currently running an exhibition entitled Exmoor meets Italy, hence two examples of photographs taken and forming part of this exhibition. 11 Sep 2011 15:56:25 GMT Photography and fine art david@melodyart.com Melody is pleased to announce that she has accepted an invitation from Agora Gallery to have her work represented and to be exhibited during Easter 2012, Agora Gallery is situated in New York City’s Chelsea art galleries district. 16 Sep 2011 13:50:08 GMT Photography and fine art david@melodyart.com A new range of photographs has now been added to our site, the rush of the summer is over and now it is time to go through this years photos, plus it is time to get out and take more dramatic morning and evening landscapes of Exmoor. http://www.melodyart.co.uk/photography/david/photography_by_david.html 20 Oct 2011 15:51:43 GMT Photography and fine art david@melodyart.com We have now added a range of small framed pictures which are an ideal gift size and price and are available to buy online. Pictures are available in a distressed white frame and to make it easy to find which pictures are available they have been marked with a red star. 26 Oct 2011 13:34:57 GMT Photography and fine art david@melodyart.com We have now added a new range of seascape painting by Melody. We are also pleased to announce that Melody is featured in the 'Art in Spectrum' magazine published by Agora Gallery in New York. 02 Nov 2011 18:53:35 GMT Photography and fine art david@melodyart.com Well, here we go, we have now set up a facebook page and will be updating this and adding information and offers on a regular basis. Please do follow the page as we inform you of what we are doing, what new paintings and photographs have been made available and we will also keep you posted as to what is happening through the changing seasons on Exmoor. We have recently updated the website and ha...ve added 10 new paintings to the seascape range. I have added a roll-over feature to the small pictures so you see a full size image without going to the specific page. Do you like this? Or do you find it distracting? Thank you for your interest, I do hope you will enjoy the journey as we explore Exmoor together. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Melody-Art/195088373901747 10 Nov 2011 14:34:05 GMT Photography and fine art david@melodyart.com We have now added a slide show to our events page showing a series of photos of the Red Stag mainly during the rutting season October 2011. These are photos of the deer and stag wild on Exmoor, a great experience being so close to these magnificent animals. http://www.melodyart.co.uk/photography/david/events/red%20stag%20on%20exmoor.html 13 Nov 2011 20:39:00 GMT Photography and fine art david@melodyart.com The Sea. As vast as the ocean, Hope, Take Time To Watch The Waves, Summer Memories, Christmas Skies, Who Paints The Skies, Night Waves... These are titles of my days, which become a memory etched and created in wonderful paint. How the paint glides, moving with the gentlest of touch, feeling the ebb and flow of the wave, the wind in the water, the wind in the paint. As my memory swirls and I move beyond the current of life, into the horizon of eternity, I know it is through the memories I find the future. It is the lessons of my swimming against the tide, it is the beauty of moving in the flow of the almighty picture. The sea, the sky and light, the covering of my entity, the covering of my soul as I swim through life on this earth. My reason and logic are lost as I swim, as I fly... Is it a dream or is it reality. My first memories of swimming were in the school pool, I swam with my orange armbands at the age of 6. I was swimming.... My teacher spoke, to my amazement there was no air in my bands and I was swimming. Like life, we discover we can swim only when we are swimming and maybe a friend says well done. At the age of 9 I swam in the sea and nearly drowned, yet my love of the sea or swimming never dimmed, I trusted the water, I knew it I belonged in it. Living in Brighton when I was 21 We would run in our costumes down Preston St to the sea, diners glanced up from there meals... We ran on to the sea. As running to my destiny I would run in the dim light of the evening, into the summer sea. The time flew as I swam in the warmth of the night, the currents pushed and shoved yet my youth made its own way. Danger was hidden to me, my love was in the sea... my home where I was free.... The sea symbolizes so much to me, reality and dreams merging into a life, my life. When I paint my seas I feel they are familiar, somewhere people know. The sea is a gift to everyone, to remind our souls to soar to be free and never to worry about a little storm, or some big waves, they are simple part of the sea... Made just for you and me. Thank you.. For the Sea.... http://www.melodyart.co.uk/seascape_paintings.html 28 Jan 2012 12:06:50 GMT Photography and fine art david@melodyart.com I have added a new photo to our web site, taken during Autumn 2011 from the beach at Hurlstone Point looking across the bay to Porlock Weir. The beach at Bossington has the most amazing round stones and seen at this time of day are beautiful in themselves. I have many more photos to take from this beach so look forward to the next season. http://www.melodyart.co.uk/photography/david/seascape/accross_the_bay-from_hurlstone.html 11 Feb 2012 15:09:14 GMT Photography and fine art david@melodyart.com Melody Art has added 3 paintings in the flower painting category; 'Kisses From Heaven' birthday roses in a blue vase and finished with gold leaf; 'Welcome' sunflowers in bright yellow a gift on the opening of our gallery in Porlock on Exmoor; 'The World Can't Weigh Me Down' a long painting inspired by the colours of Murano glass and a visit there during last year. Each of the paintings are available as giclee prints and at this time the originals are also available. All are oil paintings on canvas. http://www.melodyart.co.uk/painting/floral/kisses_from_heaven.html 23 Feb 2012 13:57:42 GMT Photography and fine art david@melodyart.com I have added a number of new photographs. Relax at Withypool Bridge, Low Tide at Lee Bay and Morning Light on Exmoor. 09 May 2012 15:52:50 GMT Photography and fine art david@melodyart.com