Melanie Meyer

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 horticult...

As an Artist - essentially self taught.
Astar Art Facilitation Training @ Astar Lindy Soloman
Bridging Polarities through Art @ Centre for Creative Education, Cape Town
Classes and courses with Michael Pettit, Val Green, Michael Grimley.
Bachelor of Architecture (University of Cape Town)
Bachelor of Architectural Studies (University of Cape Town.)

2026 — Tethered Ground, Woven Garnet, Johannesburg (October, upcoming); Karoo Alchemy, Calitzdorp Art Festival, artist in residence at The Retreat at Groenfontein (April); Un-Curated, Art.b Gallery, Bellville (November 2025–January 2026).

2018–2019 — The Call of the Wild, Bright Street Art Gallery, Somerset West (November–January).

2018 — Eye of the Beholder, Bright Street Art Gallery (October–November); IWSSA Watermedia Exhibition, Artem Gallery, Sea Point (March); Simon’s Town Art Group Summer Exhibition.

RECURRING EXHIBITIONS & CURRENT REPRESENTATION

Fine Art Portfolio — represented since 2026; Noordhoek Art Point — ongoing display since 2023; Paul Wallace Family Wines — solo tasting-room display since 2022.

KAMERS/Makers — 2026: Franschhoek (March; October–November, upcoming), Sandton (April–May; November, upcoming). 2025: Stellenbosch (March), Sandton (April–May; November), Franschhoek (October–November). 2024: Stellenbosch (March; October), Sandton (May), Steyn City (August–September). 2023: Sandton (April–May; September–October), Stellenbosch (October).

Constantiaberg Art Society — Kirstenbosch exhibitions (January–February and September 2026); Summer and Autumn exhibitions (2016–2018).

South African Society of Ar...