My art and memories
Small paintings, finished in vintage frames and ready to hang the day they arrive. Each one is the only one there will ever be.
On the wall
Pieces come and go. Sold work stays up so you can see what she has been painting — and what tends to go first.
The frame is half the painting
Mel finds the frame first — brass, gilt, chipped white, dark wood — and paints something that belongs inside it. Nothing arrives needing a trip to the framer.
- Ready to hangWire and hook fitted. Take it out of the box and put it on a nail.
- Small on purposeMost pieces are 10–25 cm. They fit the gaps a big canvas can't.
- Made to be groupedTwo or three together on one wall is how they look best.
- Wrapped for postCorner protection and a rigid box. Shipping across Romania is 20 lei.
Have something painted
A place you keep going back to, a photograph you love, the two of you. Send the picture and Mel will tell you what it needs.
A first anniversary20 × 20 cm from a phone photo. Three weeks, 540 lei framed.
The mountain they climbed18 × 24 cm, painted from four photos taken in autumn. 460 lei.
Her mother, from a photograph13 × 18 cm in an antique frame chosen to match the hallway. 380 lei.
Send the photo
Anything you have. Mel will say honestly whether it will paint well.
Agree the size
Size, frame and price confirmed in writing. Half up front.
See it halfway
A photo of the piece in progress, so nothing is a surprise at the end.
Framed and posted
Two to four weeks, depending on size. Balance paid before it ships.
One subject. A face, a view, a single object.
Two figures, or a landscape with real depth.
The most detail. Group scenes and interiors.
From the sketchbook
Figure studies and drawings from life. None of it is for sale — it is here because it is where the paintings come from.
Painting is how I keep things
I paint small, in Bucharest, mostly in the evening. Lakes and mountains I have stood in front of, people I know, the odd swan.
Everything starts in a sketchbook and ends in a frame I found somewhere — a flea market, a relative's attic, a shop on Calea Victoriei that sells old picture frames by weight. I like that each painting has already had one life before it starts a second one on your wall.
melNew pieces, first look
One short email when something comes off the easel — usually two or three pieces at a time. The small ones tend to go within a day.
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