Melanie Sinclair ~ Studio Artist

Artist's Statement

I cannot remember a time when I was not creating art. I am now an emerging artist/painter and an adjunct art professor interested in exploring the artistic possibilities of gallery and academic culture, and beyond.

I work primarily in oil and enamel, fascinated with contrasts and dichotomies, from painterly to smooth, and dimensional to flat. I also dabble in watercolor, India ink and photography. I design all of my work digitally, creating reference images for use while painting. I believe my work expresses a deep approval for and acknowledgement of independence and is a harbinger for being true to oneself in a society that screams homogenization and loss of individual identity. I express myself through my range of incomplete characters who symbolize the continual process of growth we all experience. Through the voices of flame haired girl, the mask, geisha girl and others I speak about the human condition.

These exertions, I believe, hold promise for future efforts. They successfully mingle all of the essentials that are so fundamental to my sense of composition, yet leave plenty of room for experimentation. The lean constricted landscape combined with a spanking new blend of textures, dimension and color, populated with quirky characters who each have their own little skewed bit of real estate to inhabit, can probably never be fully explained, and that is just the way I like it, now step into my parlor, a brave new world waits.