"Inner Warrior Standing" Drawing

Internationally selling artist, from the walls of the Private Art Collection of the IMF in Washington, DC, into private homes across Europe, Australia, the USA, Africa and Asia.

I am based in Cape Town, South Africa, and work across painting, sculpture, photography and image-making. My art grows from a deep spiritual connection with nature. Collectors have described my paintings as abstract realism, experienced with a sense of spirituality: a feeling of space and mood before a place or subject becomes recognisable. Yet the forms that emerge are often rooted in everyday life.

Every piece is an exploration and a discovery of the unexpected. I love colour, the new combinations I find in the natural world, and its ability to hold feeling and reflection. Making art is a form of meditation for me. When I enter the process, time seems to stop. I watch colours blend into new hues and depths, and forms emerge, change and sometimes disappear again.

My paintings are not preconceived or recreated from photographs of particular places. I respond to what is happening on the canvas, trusting the movement of colour, form and texture until the work begins to show me what it needs. My early training in architecture, landscape design and horticulture continues to shape my sensitivity to space, rhythm and living systems.

I believe the greatest masterpiece of all is a life well lived. I wish to live fully, connect deeply and be true to my soul. This is my art.

Melanie Meyer, Artist. Endlessly inspired and taught by nature; held and nurtured by God; awakened and guided by Spirit.