so weird that I am only seeing this now. If Only I had actually stopped using it.

"Seated Singer," oil on panel by Melwell, 12x9 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200

"Persuasion," oil on panel by Melwell, 8x10 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200

"No one is going to return your calls." youtu.be/JBTHn6eTZBY?...

"Mountain Horse Meadow," oil on panel by Melwell, 8x10 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200

"Magpie Dialogue," oil on canvas by Melwell, 12x12, left side of a pair – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200

"While grieving, it's tempting to say, 'None of this is real.' That may be true but you have to live life as if it were,"

There will be signs. Here's my sign. #nokings

"A Walk to the Edge," oil on canvas by Melwell, 11x14 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200

"Brown Earth, Blue Morning," oil on canvas by Melwell. 16x20 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200

It happened in #NewMexico Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/t...

If I thought I had a handful of music listeners, I have even few readers of my poetry. Do I let that stop me? Pfffffft

I was in a #clubhouse room yesterday listening to two women bitch about seventy-year-olds still in the work place, taking up space. You know what's next, people? Soylent Green.

Here's a screen grab from my catalog for the "Recombinate" project, a ten-part assemblage series of autonomous box works that transform found objects, altered books, and inherited materials into intimate structures of containment. This is from the box I call "Field Account."

After years of not going anywhere, I gotta fly. Serves me right for delaying getting my papers in order, but as a older white woman I never really worried, until lately. The idea of getting on a plane with other humans give me the freakin willies. And now, everyone else is stressed and disregulated.

"From the Foothills," oil on canvas by Melwell, 48x60 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200.

I made a track for this week's theme on the Deep Cuts Coalition's Bring a Banger night: Seeing Red (songs of anger). You know who you are. youtu.be/_Kqx5sw1I-g?...

"Good Rain," oil on panel by Melwell, 12x12 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200

A Trio of Troublemakers," oil on panels by Melwell, 7x5 each – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200.

Do I really want to see what triggered the motion light out front? as I position my glasses a little closer for the swoop the next time it comes on.

Served cold. youtu.be/sAKG_LFOT1E?...

"Church in Ranchos," oil on linen panel by Melwell, 16x20 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200

DO IT.

[SHIFT]+[REFRESH] is he gone yet?

Let's get this straight. I mean strait.

from sea to shining sea

"Cat Energy, oil on panel by Melwell, 20x16 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West +1-575-737-9200

Careful, he's feeling FLUSH.

"The Piper Calls the Tune," oil on panel by Melwell, 10x8 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200

Ethel Merman does Sade and hits from the 1960s.

META SUX

"Veil of Rain," oil on canvas by Melwell, 48x36 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200

"Prickly Pear," oil on panel by Melwell, 6x6 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200

Bare trees canopy patterns. Pre spring.

"Wild Iris," oil on canvas by Melwell, 20x20 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200

Pleased to say my painting "Autumn on Burch Street" has SOLD! Thanks to Parsons Gallery of the West on Kit Carsons Road in Taos.

"Delivery," oil on panel by Melwell, 36x48 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200

"Red Raven," oil on panel by Melwell, 6x6 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200

"Magpie with Apple Blossoms," oil on panel by Melwell, 6x6 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200

Zing!

Ochi Chyornye on the cello

Waitin on a hero waitin on the draft – yo youtu.be/Pgp1CA6rggY?...

I can appreciate any kind of bad news for the current administration, but it galls me to my core to hear a commentator say GAS PRICES are going to make the GOP lose the mid-terms. WTAF. I guess raping and abusing children is too far out of most American's experience to get too upset about. Chilling.

"Up Ahead," oil on canvas by Melwell, 36x48 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200

LOL I finally just heard Jared Moskowitz's sick burn: America needs a national divorce from you [Noem] on "biblical grounds." Dude. You are hilarious.

"Crow in the Snow," oil on panel by Melwell, 20x16 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200

"Old Taos County Courthouse," oil on panel by Melwell, 20x16 – Call Parsons Gallery of the West at +1-575-737-9200

Here's a little blog post about my most-recent painting, "The Ceremony." melwellromancitofineart.com/2026/03/the-...