Collection: Bokeh paintings

What is 'Bokeh'?

Bokeh comes from a Japanese word, translating literally as ‘blur’. Though typically a photography term, Mel is making an artform out of painting bokeh.

Bokeh features an absence of harsh, sharp details - and shows up most beautifully in small background highlights e.g. the light catching on water droplets or filtering through a tree canopy.

In these paintings Mel captures colour and light in camera, before transforming these into mesmerising oil paintings and prints, to bring this softness of gaze and magical light into your home.

Mel regards her bokeh perspective as a metaphor for a way of looking for the good and beauty in your world; smoothing over the hard edges of the day and erasing trivial details.