Remembering the late artist Pauline Bewick.
Radio Kerry podcast, remembering the late artist Pauline Bewick
‘A MOTHER'S LEGACY’
Pauline Bewick and daughter Poppy Melia both live and work in the wild, mountainous countryside of Kerry’s Reeks District. They discuss their family’s unconventional matriarchal history and how nature serves as their calling to the art world while Bewick works on what will become her final painting. After Bewick’s death, Poppy revisits one of the forests that inspired her mother’s work and considers how her own approach to art might evolve.
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11th December 2022 Sunday Independent
UK BIRDWATCHING MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2021
NEW LIMITED PRINTS NOW AVAILABLE
Each print is individually numbered, hand signed and embossed.
Poppy Melia on designing her new embossment -
‘About eighty years ago my maternal grandmother’s neighbour in Kenmare found a Viking hoard under a rock, when he was clearing one of his fields. It was a hoard consisting mainly of battle axes. He brought everything up to the National History Museum in Dublin. They displayed all except this gold frog, because they didn’t think it was connected with the hoard and they couldn’t work out its origin, but it definitely was found with all the battle axes under that rock. So, the farmer gave it to my grandmother. My mother has it now and she wears it almost all the time. She is going to leave it to me and I will treasure it.
I love all things water, so what with this special heirloom and all the frogs we observe in our old family water well, I decided to use a frog for my logo.’
INKQ issue 10 SUMMER 2020
Sunday Independent 10th May 2020
Holding the keys to the Kingdom in my deserted watery bolthole! (click to read the article)
Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine - March/April 2020
https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/gallery/poppy-melia.html
BOOK COVER 2019
‘Swan, Cygnets and Bogbean’ painting on the cover of Erin Halliday’s poetry collection @eshalliday (The original painting is four feet high, and is in a private collection)
The Irish Writer’s Centre was packed yesterday for the launch of the book. Special thanks to publisher Alan Hayes of Arlen House and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
NATIONWIDE 7:00pm 8th March 2019
Mary Kennedy visits Pauline Bewick and Poppy Melia’s studios, Nationwide RTÉ one 8/3/19
Limited number of prints available
A limited number of Poppy Melia’s prints, hand signed, are available with free delivery worldwide.
Framing service available within Ireland.
VIP Magazine December 2016
BOOK COVER
2016
Poppy Melia’s ‘Kestrel Over Callahaniska’ was used to illustrate the cover of Celia de Fréine's book ‘Spellbound’, published by Arlen House.
The Sunday Independent, Living section, 'The Pleasure List' 20/12/15
Available Work
A very limited number of Poppy Melia’s edition prints, hand signed,
are now available with free delivery world wide.
Book Covers
2012 to 2014
Poppy Melia's works were used to illustrate the covers of Celia de Fréine's books, published by Arlen House.
Midnight Court - 2012
Desire - 2012
Plight - 2013
Riddle Me This - 2014
2012 - Collected Poems
By Macdara Woods
Dedalus Press
Cover by Poppy Melia
Sunday independent Living Section page 18 - 8th September 2013
The one that James Bond missed!
1995
The one that James Bond missed! ‘Swans Nesting’, Social and Personal Magazine
