"The Sound of Silence" Painting

Melanie Sky is a multidisciplinary emerging artist living on Dja Dja Warrung country in Maldon, Victoria, Australia. She follows the inspiration of the landscape in her surroundings while exploring her strong passion for art and colour. Her work aims to bring you the joy, movement, and energy of bold colour, shape, and texture.

As a child growing up in coastal NSW, she enjoyed being surrounded by dance, music, colour, and creativity. She has always felt a subtle energetic connection with the Australian environment, and now explores this relationship with the land, love of movement, and the interplay of nature and colour through my works.

Melanie's work starts with being on country and photographing the landscape both at ground level and from the sky with a drone. Once back in the studio she uses those images to draw inspiration from the shapes, colours and textures seen and felt in the landscape. She loves to turn up the volume with the colour and uses different techniques to create flexibility and fluidity in her style. This allows her to dramatise the landscape through the use of bold colours, shapes and textures.