About

Hi, I’m Melanie and I’m a painter living on the Redwood Coast of Northern California.

My paintings are inspired by the natural world and those who inhabit it. While I do love painting landscapes, I’m finding myself more and more drawn to painting animals and to the process of observing them, finding their unique personality, and bringing that to the canvas.

Animals have always been an important part of my life and I’m fascinated by the connection that we share with them. Although we often experience animals through our own relationships with them, each exists as an individual, with its own personality and way of experiencing the world. I love painting animals as a way of exploring that individuality and expressing something of who they are as dignified beings beyond our human interpretations of them.