Ribbons ARTISTS_Melvin Edwards [In] the work

[In] the work

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tropical plants

The overlay of color gives some of the shapes a feeling of depth

He creates the compositions for his work by bringing together bits and pieces of thoughts and images to create a unified whole

Ribbons ARTISTS_Melvin Edwards [In] the workFrom the Artist Ihad just traveled with my husband up the East Coast. He was doing a film; I think they were shooting in New Hampshire and Vermont or somewhere. Anyway, it was duringleaf peeper season, when the fall [of] the leaves are happening, andthe changes are happening, and I had always loved landscape painting. Ive looked at [the] landscape quite a bit. Quite a few of my early paintings are of the landscape. Whenever I travelI paint, and so