Youth Devouring brown Her work has shown in

Her work has shown in Oakland and San Francisco

In all my work

Melissa Hartley is a self taught artist

Her compositions feature darkly poetic female portraits against undefined backgrounds

23 x 32 inches

Youth Devouring brown Her work has shown in6 x 14 inches 2012 Oil on Linen Framed The subjects stand as compromised martyrs, moments frozen in time. Pacifists, they were once observers and are now the eternally observed. Stolid, cold marble with fixed emotion, they bear the changing seasons and cycles of time uncelebrated, unobtrusive but exposed. They are effigies from a lost age, relics of a classical system and now they stand as monuments to modern decay. These are our gods, our flawed