Hello Blossoms (Gumnut Gardens) (AAF SYD)

This artwork is avaliable for purchase exclusively at Affordable Art Fair Sydney 15-18 June
My work has been highly influenced by the world of commercial art and graphic design. This translates to my art in many ways. My still life paintings are careful composition full of allegories, which capture a moment in time where all represented items are meaningful beyond the composition.

'BHellow Blossoms' is a still life that features red gumnut blossoms in and around a glass bottle. The glass bottle has the words 'Hello Blossoms - Gumnut Gardens' embossed on the front of the glass.

I have painted a series of these 'reworked' glass bottles as vases for flowers in many still life paintings.

This particular painting was finished just after the death of Barry Humphreys. I made a last minute decision to add 'Hello Blossoms' as a homage to the great Dame Edna.

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Born in Georgia USA in 1978, Melissa moved to Australian as a baby and grew up in Windang, on the South Coast NSW. Melissa established a career in advertising since 1999, and started portrait and still life painting in 2012. Melissa has been a finalist in many Australian Art Prizes including the Archibald Prize, Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Kennedy Prize, Kilgour Prize, Pirtek Still Life Award, Shirley Hannan Portrait Prize, Brisbane Portrait Prize, Black Swan Portraiture Prize, Portia Geach Memorial Art Award, John Copes Portrait Prize and the Percival Portrait Prize. Melissa won Wollongong Art Gallery’s ‘Postcodes from the Edge Art Prize’ in 2016.