Kreh Mellick
Asheville, NC
ARTIST STATEMENT
My drawings represent an ever-evolving need to relate
fictions on paper. In their current iteration I draw technical inspiration from
folk art- cut paper watercolors, quilts and weathervanes. Employing static
motifs and repeat imagery I strive to create a vocabulary using icons based in
tradition. It is my effort to relate my interest in woman, nature, domesticity
and power of work and home, as well as the unseen magic and energies that whirl
around all things living.
BIO
Kreh Mellick is an artist living and working in Asheville, NC. She received her BFA in Illustration from Maine College of Art, and was a CORE fellow at Penland School of Crafts. Her works on paper relate narratives inspired by folklore, nostalgia, and time passed. Kreh works primarily with gouache on paper, often cut and layered in reassembled environments. She combines complex, decorative patterns with airy, minimalist, ethereal landscapes.