An oil painting by contemporary English painter, Melissa Franklin Sanchez. Oil paintings on metals (like brass, copper, etc) is an old dutch tradition, which Franklin-Sanchez has perfected over many years of practice.

In “Iris, Daisies, Daffodils” Franklin’s daughter sits amid blooming spring flowers in their backyard in Italy. The choice to push the horizon line to the top of the canvas, allowed her to truly invite the viewer into the world she was standing in when she made the painting. The sea of green’s vastness is indicated by the precisely shaped dashes and dots of flowers, as the relative size beautifully indicates the distance. The hint of the blue sky pushing through the trees across the top of the panel is a perfect lid to the scene.