Melissa’s portraiture art stems from many inspirations. Each piece has its own story. Most portraits are created using oil paints with a dry brush technique, which creates flawless skin tones, rich patterns, and expressive artwork.
About This Artwork
Bat is my favourite profile ever painted, the bat and model are both focused on the same thing - their thoughts shared, working together through the night solving the days problems.' - Melissa Sharplin
Original Medium: Oil on canvasOriginal Scale: 22 x 30 Inches
About This Artwork
'The Cockatoo represents a fabulous hat for this stunning model, I can imagine this work hanging by a fantastic zebra print item above stairs' - Melissa Sharplin
ORIGINAL AVAILABLE
Image - Glamour MagazineModel - Zuma @ Ford Models
Original Medium: Oil on canvas Original Scale: 28 x 59 Inches
About This Artwork
'Miss White is the angel of the Swit-Swurl (bird) series. My older sister passed away before I was born and this painting developed into a representation of her.' - Melissa Sharplin
Image - M2 Magazine Model - Kristen at Red Eleven Photographer - Fiona Quinn Owl photographer - Andrew Zuckerman
Original Medium: Oil on canvas Original Scale: 40 x 60 Inches
About This Artwork
'The depth in this model's eyes, I love.' - Melissa Sharplin
Make-Up The Ultimate Guide" by Rae Morris.Model - Olivia DunfrostPhotographer - Steven CheeFantail photographer - Peter McKenzie
Original Medium: Oil on canvas Original Scale: 22 x 30 Inches
About This Artwork
'The tiger represents the creative thought process, finding an idea and jumping with the wildness of wherever it takes you.' - Melissa Sharplin
Finished in 2013
Original Medium: Oil on canvas Original Scale: 23.4 x 33.1 Inches
About This Artwork
Deep, inky blue holds this sublime figure and her parrot, who in turn holds you in her beautiful gaze.
Rich patterns appear flat against tonal warmth.
Stunning as a Giclée print on 100% cotton rage paper, or as a canvas, showing off magentas and electric blue.
Original Medium: Oil on canvas
About This Artwork
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This was the first painting I started in my 'Swit-Swurl' (bird) series, I saw her in a dream and the whole collection went from there" - Melissa Sharplin
Model is a composition made up from 3 different images.
Owl photographer - Dana Brown
Original Medium: Oil on canvas Original Scale: 60 x 90 Inches
About This Artwork
'Layered images in this painting create a masked beauty' - Melissa Sharplin
Finished in 2013
Model Image - Mario Testino
Original Medium: Oil on CanvasOriginal Scale: 23.4 x 33.1 Inches
About This Piece
'The contrasting colours in this artwork are so juicy and vibrant, the models cool, still look is contrasting the parrot in flight' - Melissa Sharplin
Image - Madison Magazine Model - Ganna @ City Models Paris Photographer - Carlotta Moye Parrot photographer - Andrew Zuckerman
Original Medium: Oil on canvas Original Scale: 36 x 36 Inches
About This Artwork
'I imagined the model in this painting was thinking 'oh no, how will I keep you two dry?'' - Melissa Sharplin
Image - Lavazza advertSwan photograph - in flight - photo.netSwan photograph - Sitting swan- pbase.com
Original Medium: Oil on canvas Original Scale: 40 x 30 Inches
About This Piece
Soft focus, blush and blonde. Carefree as a Canary.
Available framed.
Image - Madison Magazine Model - Ganna @ City Models Paris Photographer - Carlotta Moye Parrot photographer - Andrew Zuckerman
Original Medium: Oil on canvas Original Scale: 36 x 36 Inches
About This Artwork
'We all know magpies have the tendency to attack you, The model is ready for the next swoop and her stare says 'Bring it on', makes me chuckle' - Melissa Sharplin
Model - Grace HollowsPhoto model - Damien Van der VlistMagpie photographer - Paul C
Original Medium: Oil on canvas Original Scale: 60 x 40 Inches
About This Artwork
'The largest original painting in the Swit Swurl collection - super striking' - Melissa Sharplin
Swallow image - Stanford Press Jasen Partner catalogue
Original Medium: Oil on canvas Original Scale: 48 x 60.5 Inches
About This Artwork
'If birds were an extension to our personality these two marry up perfectly- cheeky kea and a cheeky look' - Melissa Sharplin
Model - Georgia FowlerPhotographer - Charles HowellsKea photographer - Richard Seaman
Original Medium: Oil on canvas Original Scales: 30 x 47.5 Inches
About This Artwork
Space girl Brigitte, floating in the galaxt with her retro pop style space suit on, inspired by a vintage book cover.
Original Medium: Oil on canvasOriginal Scale: about 80 x 80 Inches
About This Artwork
'All American babe, The eye colour of the model and bird are identical as is their single eye stare at you the viewer, HOT' - Melissa Sharplin Image - Madison magazineRed Cardinal image - Shutterpoint.com
Original Medium: Oil on canvas Original Scale: 30 x 40 Inches
About This Artwork
Realism/surrealism, Looking at merging patterns and features, creating a work that is vintage yet modern.
Finished in Feb 2014
Original Medium: Oil on canvasOriginal Scale: 23.6 x 35.4 Inches
About This Artwork
'The pen doodling in the background of this painting, represents the story of a night out with a group of girls, forgetting to pay for sangria and finding love' - Melissa Sharplin
Finished in 2007
Original Medium: Oil on canvasOriginal Scale: 39.4 x 27.6 Inches
About This Artwork
'This painting was caught and saved in the Chch Earthquakes, thankfully she was thrown in the other direction to the huge book shelf that took out the table, easel, paints, mediums and brushes' - Melissa Sharplin
Finished in 2010, touched up in 2012.
Photographer - James Meakin
Original Medium: Oil on canvas Original Scale: 60 x 50 Inches
About This Artwork
'I painted this painting after I turned 21, living in London sharing a bedsit with my bestie Tali' - Melissa Sharplin
Property of the artist, NZ
Original Medium: Oil on canvasOriginal Scale: 20 x 30 Inches
'I’d Rather Be Saving The World'
Revolution is fresh faced and tenacious. Revolution will zone out when you’re talking about irrelevant or inconsequential things, because she’d rather be saving the World.
Melissa Sharplin's flawless signature technique in oil on canvas.
Dimensions; 1290 x 900 mm
Price negotiable, please contact artist@melissasharplin.com
Roses are Red
About This Piece
Amazing bright expressively painted vintage roses surrounding a contemplative model, romantic and beautifully balanced work.
This painting is loved by so many, now you can get her in different sizes - on stretcher framed canvas she is an absolute wonder !
Original Medium: Oil on ply Original Scale: 120cm diameter
COLA
About This Piece
Fun and flirty ! curly hair - breath of fresh air, all the sass required.
This work was created in one layer of diluted oil, giving her a 'watercolour' look.
In beautiful tones of smokey blues, beige and gold.
Original Medium: Oil on canvas Original Scale: A1
I'd rather be saving the world About This Piece Sometimes as an artist you come across a certain image and you just have to paint it, this is one of those images. I added the badges to the cap as I like to bring in a bit of a story into why she looks so forlorn staring off into the distance. She would much rather be saving the world than doing whatever she was doing. Maybe we all have those moments in time as well. Photographer - Awesome Kristian Fanselow Model - The amazing Katiusha Feofanova Original Medium: Oil on...
About This Artwork
Inspired by a great artists work by Robert Bateman I thought I would try my spin on the subject and created this painting with big dollaps of paint on the tree trunk where the light hits. I am so in love with this painting it is in my personal collection. A beautiful portrait of a big cat.
Original Medium: Oil on canvas Original Scale: A0
About This Piece MYARN Galactic ambassador of the ninth planetary solar system, she is deeply empathetic, a seer of truth and fortune, she holds the key to eternal love and abundance, feels the energetic signatures of colour frequencies and accesses divine guidance helping connect others to their star families. MYARN is a part of a much larger tribe of Goddesses being made - if this work resonates with you - She is available as an original - please contact me for further information on her monetary value. Original Medium: Acrylic on canvas Original Scale: about A1 Mixed imagery pulled...
About This Piece DELPHINE Where the moons shimmer hits the oceans skin, the flicker of light will show you the illuminated path to Delphines heart, her breath echos into the depths of the oceans, Representing the power of the most precious substance on earth, Delphine is a priestess of water, the ocean tides ripple through her every vein, her beating heart sounds to the sentient creatures of the sea. She holds the power to create chaos or calm like any Ocean, she sits and observes the ebb and flow of life. Original Medium: Oil on canvasOriginal Scale: about A2 Mixed...
About This Piece AMARIA A galactic warrior from a tribe of interstellar priestesses residing in the rocky cliffs and grey sands of a coastal radiant arch on the 5th sentient planet of the Amdelfarian people, Guided by vibrations in stone, these people can shift large masses of rock with a sounding choir, calling to the energies within to do as they beacon, some say it sounds like a war cry and so their 'warrior' title exists, they do not fight however, they only create and shift stone and rock, some even say they are the true makers of the pyramids...
About This Piece THENA An alchemist of celebrated recognition, Anything Thena touches can turn to pure gold, holding this gift in her palms is this elemental magicians gift. Her heart beats thick golden liquid blood around her slight body, when her eyes flicker they cast sparkles of golden light out into into the world she wanders. A galactic traveller on light, bound to the purest energies - she is called around the universe to help the circle of light and the treasury diplomats turn the mixed or tainted gold found in waste lands back to cleaned and renewed by using the...
