Narrative Images
"Narrative" painting is a term used in art jargon descriptive of works that tell or are meant to tell a story outside of the paint itself. It isn't specific to a style, which can be rigidly realistic, or thoroughly abstract. Narratives representated might be folk stories and mythology or intensely personal experiences.
In many cases, the story used is itself a metaphor for another situation, as when post-revolutionary French painters used Roman and classical "historical" scenes to represent France's rich history and enduring values. Still lifes from the renaissance period are considered narrative in that the subject matter is often symbolic of the fleeting nature of life, or the inevitability of decay.
Narrative is distinguished from other 'purposes' of art, such as 'decorative' (little content is provided outside of the merits of beauty and tastefulness), 'non-objective,' which is intended to be only paint without any reference to meaning or representation, or 'expressionist,' which is intended to convey or record the artist's emotional response to the subject.
Melinda's narrative works are also expressionist, and often derived from personal stories—in which one can find universal themes—or flights of fancy, which may embody both humor and an implied story, in which the viewer is invited to fill in the gaps.