Mel’s experience entails a previous career as an Art Director in the publishing industry working on titles such as Fashion Quarterly, Home & Entertaining, and Fashion Quarterly Entertaining amongst others. She was awarded MPA Art Director of the Year for her art direction and design for the magazine Fashion Quarterly Entertaining.

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After leaving the publishing industry and becoming a full-time parent to three boys, Mel embarked on a learning phase of studying family therapy, counseling, art therapy, colour psychology, Interactive Drawing Therapy, Intuitive Collage, and Process Art - becoming a certified process arts facilitator, holding workshops and sessions from her studio.

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Mel returned to study abstraction painting after recognising the desire to paint and express herself creatively in this way. After receiving a placement at Elam School of Fine Arts, Mel decided to attend Browne Art School; studying painting over a period of five years.

 

Mel has been represented since 2018 by Frame Gallery, Herne Bay, Auckland, NZ and this year is excited to be working in collaboration with a New Zealand homeware company, and also presenting her first Solo Show.