About Yellow Bowl
The distinctive contemporary paintings of Mel Davis have been admired by collectors throughout North America. The Montreal-born artist creates colourful, abstract compositions that often pay homage to French masters such as Matisse. This rendering of a bowl of fruit outlined in deep blue, the contents in bright orange, blue, green, yellow and pink stands out against the white and yellow backdrop.“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
Mel Davis was born in Montreal and 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. Her work has won numerous awards including the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec, The Canada Council for the Arts and the Pollock Krasner Foundation Award. Davis’s work has been shown in both solo and group shows in Canada and the U.S.