VIEWS FROM ABOVE The first time I flew on an airplane I was 20 years old. I was flying to Rhode Island to visit a college boyfriend who had recently moved back to his home state. Flying felt like a big deal. I remember being terrified, which wasn’t an odd feeling for...
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I’m excited to start sharing here regularly again! Rather than just show you all of my artwork, I also want you to get a better idea of what goes into it. Basically, I want to clue you in on what I’m experiencing in the world or in my head. In this case, we’re...
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A peek at my current favorite Pinterest board: 2022 Opulence. I’m not sure if it came from bingewatching Halston on Netflix right before the new year or not, but that’s when I first noticed it. That feeling of fun, inspiration, opulence tied to 60s and 70s fashion....
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If you’ve been around for a while, you know that I rarely do videos. I feel really awkward on camera and I lose my train of thought easily. But, what I’ve noticed recently is that I do okay when I’m chatting with someone else versus creating my own...
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The lovely people at Wescover in San Francisco asked me some questions about my art and creative process for a new feature on their website. You can read the interview right here. “Melanie Biehle creates beautiful abstract art that elicits powerful emotions. Her...
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Merging of light and shadow. Sky and earth. Grounding and soaring. The duality of life and art. Thank you for supporting my art and sharing my work. Sign up here for my art newsletter to learn about new work and see what inspires me. Buy my original paintings, fine...
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Welcome home. To my home, specifically. I don’t know if it’s the unpredictability of this year or just a very long, deeply felt desire to start showing up in this space that is bringing me here today, but whatever it is I’m glad to finally be back. I...
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I turn 50 on December 1st. To commemorate this “milestone”, much of the second half of 2019 has/will be spent creating a new body of work. Metamorphosis: Half-Century will officially debut in January 2020 at CURA in Seattle. To celebrate, there...
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unsplash-logoZach Doty Don’t even get me started on the cancellation of Mozart in the Jungle. Oops…too late. When I first planned on writing a blog post about this show, I wasn’t aware of it’s future (or lack thereof) at Amazon Studios. So this...
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I’m not sure why writing about my art and creative process feels so challenging. After all, writing was my very first creative pursuit. I’ve worked as a writer for many more years than I’ve held a paintbrush. Last year I created #mb_AtoZ: An About...
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