About
Melinda is a Sydney based Australian painter, painting across the genres of landscape and still life. Her contemplative and quiet oil or acrylic works reflect a strong interest in colour and composition, often distilling subjects down to reveal their essence. She gains inspiration for her paintings from a variety of sources, be it the objects she lives with, the geometry and hues of the Australian landscape or a simple view from her window. Often beginning the painting process by making studies en plain air, in the studio the paintings are developed, refined, and abstracted to reflect an emotive response to sensory memory of the subject and to the act of painting itself.
After a career as a Registered Nurse and whilst raising her three daughters, Melinda pursued her passion for painting by completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the National Art School in 2014. She has exhibited consistently in both solo group exhibitions since that time. In 2015 she was the recipient of the Storrrier Onslow National Art School studio residency in Paris. She has also been a finalist in many art prizes, notably the Mosman Art Prize 2011, the Ravenswood Womens Art Prize 2017 and 2018, the Hawkesbury Art Prize 2019, and in 2022 she was commended in the Agency Still Life Art Prize, Bowral Art Gallery.
“Melinda draws our attention to slivers of reality sensed on the periphery of our awareness, framed and extracted to reveal pure forms and potent sensory memory. Her paintings record fleeting moments of beauty”
Margate Lamond , writer.