Melville Holmes, Artist

"Old Master Dialogues"

mholmesart@gmail.com ● 509-838-6878 ● Spokane, WA

Services

  • Painting Commissions
  • Art & Picture Frame Restoration
  • Color, Design & Decor Consultation

Also available for lectures and workshops

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Gallery of Services

AFTER: Interior church detail
AFTER: color is more inviting
Design & Finish: Private lake side home.

Painting commission for residence: Trompe l’oeil treatment for fireplace with faux the fire and faux granite
Painting commission; house portrait
Painting commission: still life
Painting commission: The White Swan.
Painting commission: Still life with wooden toys and hand decorated frame.
BEFORE Restoration: Statuary
AFTER Restoration: Statuary
BEFORE: St. Michael statue missing sword (not pictured)
AFTER: St. Michael statue with a new sword.
BEFORE restoration: Ceiling mural
AFTER restoration: ceiling mural
BEFORE restoration: Painting
AFTER restoration: Painting
BEFORE: Painting of Madonna & Child
AFTER: Painting of Madonna & Child
BEFORE restoration: Picture frame
AFTER restoration: Picture frame
BEFORE guilding: Picture frame
AFTER gilding: Picture frame
BEFORE: Corner damage
AFTER: Corner damage repaired
BEFORE: Interior church detail.
AFTER: Interior church detail
BEFORE: Baptismal font
.AFTER: Baptismal font
BEFORE: Architectural detail
AFTER: Architectural detail
BEFORE: Exterior damage to architectural terra cotta.
AFTER: repairs to exterior architectural terra cotta
BEFORE: wrong color applied to corporate business center.
AFTER: color is more inviting
Design commission: back bar of restaurant
Design for Brinton’s U.S. Axminster wool carpet.
Design & Finish: Private lake side home.

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The Influence of Chardin

One of Holmes’s earliest impressions of art came from a book that his mother checked out from the library in 1963.  It was Chardin by Georges Wildenstein.  If one concurs with the opinions reported therein to have  been held by Chardin’s contemporaries, it is that no one should ever again paint like Chardin–not even Chardin! … More The Influence of Chardin

Elements of Varnish Making

“It took many years to realize how great a gulf separates the contemporary artist from his or her seventeeth-century counterpart. There are few teachers of the ‘old way,’ for there are no living links to the workshops of the ‘golden age’ where technical understanding and sound craftsmanship were the norm. Speculations about the ‘secret of … More Elements of Varnish Making

An Object of Contemplation

“Works of fine art are perhaps best distinguished from other human products in that, beyond any other function, they serve as objects of contemplation. A painting affirms its content, saying to the viewer: ‘Think on this.’  For example, the still-lifes of Chardin, the landscapes of Frederick Church, Vermeer’s View of Delft or Woman Holding a … More An Object of Contemplation

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Classic Holmes Still Life from Melville Holmes on Vimeo.

Using techniques derived from his studies of the materials and methods of the Old Masters, artist Melville Holmes has painted richly luminous, contemplative still life paintings for many years.