Fruit Bowl with Leaves

About Fruit Bowl with Leaves

Using vivid colours that pop off the canvas, Montreal born artist Mel Davis creates still life paintings in her own contemporary abstract style.
This oil painting of fruit is rendered in bright orange, turquoise, and green against the fresh white of a ceramic bowl. Her work is reminiscent of the fabled 20th century French artist Matisse known for his colourful and fluid style. Davis uses colour, texture, pattern and form—in her own uniquely engaging work.

“My paintings investigate iconic themes in art such as landscape, the portrait, the interior. I am interested in how we as makers and viewers can find endless modes of description and emotional connection in these classical representations.” Mel Davis

She graduated from Concordia University with a BFA in 1998. A short study trip at the Slade School of Art in London was followed by a move to California where she acquired her MFA at the San Francisco Institute of Art. Davis still lives in the Bay area. Her work has been shown in both solo and group shows in Canada and the U.S.