The Artist: Kreh Mellick is an artist living and working in Asheville, NC. Growing up, she was surrounded by folk art images, as her grandmother made reverse-glass paintings on lamps. “I saw early on that the result didn’t have to be the thing that you see. I began to trust that I wouldn’t draw realistically, and I kept having the drawing feeling, going off with stacks of paper. I needed to disappear into it”, she says. Her work relates fictions inspired by folklore, nostalgia, illustration and daily habits - “deeper images and the way they come to the surface… they come into the conversation I’m having with others, inside, and I pepper in other ways of seeing and elements that aren’t so internal to me as I work.”
Description: Watercolor with intricately cut paper… we completely become lost in awe looking at Kreh’s illustrations. Birds perched in rambling branches, acorns, flowers, berries and a wolf in trousers. Shades of deep indigo and light blues. Kreh’s work is a treasure.
Details: 12” height and 13 1/2” wide. Watercolor and cut paper. Framed.
A Note From Erika: So honored to have a small selection of Kreh’s work. It’s easy to get lost in her pieces. Love them so much!
The Artist: Kreh Mellick is an artist living and working in Asheville, NC. Growing up, she was surrounded by folk art images, as her grandmother made reverse-glass paintings on lamps. “I saw early on that the result didn’t have to be the thing that you see. I began to trust that I wouldn’t draw realistically, and I kept having the drawing feeling, going off with stacks of paper. I needed to disappear into it”, she says. Her work relates fictions inspired by folklore, nostalgia, illustration and daily habits - “deeper images and the way they come to the surface… they come into the conversation I’m having with others, inside, and I pepper in other ways of seeing and elements that aren’t so internal to me as I work.”
Description: Watercolor with intricately cut paper… we completely become lost in awe looking at Kreh’s illustrations. Birds perched in rambling branches, acorns, flowers, berries and a wolf in trousers. Shades of deep indigo and light blues. Kreh’s work is a treasure.
Details: 12” height and 13 1/2” wide. Watercolor and cut paper. Framed.
A Note From Erika: So honored to have a small selection of Kreh’s work. It’s easy to get lost in her pieces. Love them so much!
