About

Melinda is a mixed media artist based in South Gippsland, whose practice is informed by her sensitivity to language, form, and colour. Words and phrases often serve as conceptual springboards in her creative process, guiding the emotional tone and narrative undercurrents of her work. Likewise, the interplay of shapes and carefully chosen colour combinations allows her to express the emotion and memory of place. These elements come together in her abstracted landscape paintings, where the natural environment is expressed through an intuitive layering of mark-making, texture, and gesture. After formal training at Victoria University and the Victorian College of the Arts, Melinda continued to deepen her practice through self-directed residencies in Broken Hill, NSW, and St. Ives, Cornwall, UK.. She further developed her visual language during a 10-month mentoring program with the Turps Banana Correspondence Course in 2022–2023. Her first solo exhibition was held at the Meeniyan Art Gallery in 2023.

My Inspiration

Rolling green hills, windbreaks, tin sheds, rusty and distressed tin, wire and fences, dams, texture, colour and the changing seasons. Life in rural Victoria – South Gippsland, and travels overseas.