Melville Holmes

Artist, Craftsman, Scholar

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

Services & Contact

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

Also available for lectures and workshops

Have a question about pricing or other services?

Trompe l’oeil treatment for fireplace with faux fire and faux granite
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
Isabella, painting, Davenport, hotel, Melville Holmes, restoration
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.
Gaziing ball high res scanl


Artist

Melville Holmes received his first oil painting lessons at the age of nine and it seemed a matter of course that he entered college as an art major, but it was only during his junior year in 1972 that he found clear direction. “Standing before Rembrandt’s Portrait of a Rabbi, I saw a rich matrix … More Artist

Scholar

Contributor to both specialized and general publications: amber varnish, white lead, chemical composition, conservation methods “Amber Varnish and the Technique of the Gentileschi” included in the appendices of Artemisia Gentileschi and the authority of art : critical reading and catalogue raisonné, by R. Ward Bissell; also cited in “‘Amber Varnish’ and Orazio Gentileschi’s ‘Lot and … More Scholar

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.

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