Youth Devouring brown Their definition of a “useful”

Their definition of a “useful” education

entropy prevails and only by finding beauty in decay and re-interpreting it do we carry on the indomitable human spirit of progress and artistic pursuit of beauty

In all my work

Decaying walls

Melissa Hartley is a self taught artist

Youth Devouring brown Their definition of a “useful”6 x 14 inches 2012 Oil on Linen Framed The subjects stand as compromised martyrs, moments frozen in time. Pacifists, they were once observers and are now the eternally observed. Stolid, cold marble with fixed emotion, they bear the changing seasons and cycles of time uncelebrated, unobtrusive but exposed. They are effigies from a lost age, relics of a classical system and now they stand as monuments to modern decay. These are our gods, our flawed