Art — Melanie Sovran Wolfe

Melanie Sovran Wolfe, the Artist

To purchase an original or commission a painting or foyer mural, contact me via the contact form. To buy prints, go to Fine Art America

Whimsical Seaside, 2025, 5 x 7, Acrylic on Canvas: SOLD

Celestial Coast, 2025, 24 x 30, Acrylic on Canvas

Starlit Hollow 2.0. Acrylic on Canvas., 36x18, 2025

Starlit Hollow 2.0, 2025 18 x 36, Acrylic on Canvas

Starry Harbor Nights, 2025, 8 x 10, Canvas Board with Frame, SOLD

Starlight Harbor, 2025, 16 x 12, Acrylic on Canvas: SOLD

Sunny Side Up, 2025, 12 x 16, Acrylic on Canvas: SOLD

The Spinning Era, 2025, 12 x 12, Acrylic on Canvas

Gold Harbor, 2025, 24 x 30, Acrylic on Canvas

An Evening Downtown, 2025, 24x30, Acrylic on Canvas

Swirlville Harbor, Maine, 2025, 12 x 16 Acrylic on Canvas

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Artist Statement

My love for bustling towns and storybook villages began in childhood, turning the pages of Richard Scarry’s colorful books. I loved designing my own towns, summer camps, and school campuses. Yet, at the same time, I I was intimidated to draw or paint as I tended to compare my work to those who drew and painted realism and hyper realism in my family. I can recall believing I wasn’t artistic, so the desire never bloomed.

Later, in my twenties, I fell in love with Charles Wysocki’s enchanting Americana villages. A love and longing for New England life began to grow in this period of my life. At the time, I was a young military wife, newly returned from Germany to Oklahoma, and Americana décor was having a moment. In our humble 1930s bungalow on Fort Sill, I dedicated an entire room to red, white, and blue, and even framed a Wysocki jigsaw puzzle to hang on the wall.

Back then, painting felt impossible, like a dream reserved for someone else. Like Grandma Moses, my prime years were spent raising a family. I discovered my love for writing at 38, and published my first book soon after. Decades later, during Covid, life miraculously green-lit a move to Blue Hill, Maine—a coastal town brimming with creatives of every type, and of course, the desire to paint emerged.

My kids were raised, I was taking a break from writing, and it was the perfect time to explore. I had overcome my doubts in my abilities and was okay with painting for myself. Surrounded by the arts and the wild beauty of forests and the Atlantic, I picked up a brush and painted Starlit Hollow, my first New England village. I had no intentions of painting professionally, but through the encouragement of friends who came over and saw my works, I decided to enter my first art show.

Just a few months later, and I had paintings hanging in nine states and one in Canada and a budding career that exploded before I could even catch my breath. My work is rooted in nostalgia yet infused with imagination and meditation, becoming one with every picture and allowing the universe to flow through me and into every piece. I blend the warmth of American folk art with the swirling energy of Van Gogh-inspired skies, creating whimsical towns where the universe itself is alive. Each piece is a celebration of community, color, and wonder, where the ordinary becomes magical, and all while gifting the viewer an escape from today’s chaotic world.

The most common comment I hear about my work is “it makes me feel happy.” And that makes my day.