DARCY MARIE MELTON
< Magpie > Watercolor and gouache on paper, 13 x 18 cm, 2021
Artist’s Statement
One of our most common and frequent connections to the earth is through food. In a high-paced world where most of the products we consume are shipped from an ocean away and marketed to us via social media, it’s easy to lose that primal connection. My work endeavors to reconnect us.
Darcy Marie Melton is a painter and illustrator who splits her time between the US and Italy. She is a self-taught artist working primarily in watercolor, gouache, and oil. She serves as the current art editor of Pigeon Review. Her work resides in private collections in the US and UK and has been hung in group collections in the Cannon Tunnel in Washington, D.C. as well as the Jepson Center in Savannah, GA among others. She has work forthcoming in Dishsoap Quarterly, MASKS, and The Bitter Fruit Review. You can find more of her work on her website darcymariemelton.com, @darcy_marie_melton on Instagram, and @not_mr_darcy on Twitter.