Melissa’s  work speaks of a life lived on the land, an intimate connection with both the wild and tamed landscapes in her close daily interactions of working on a farm and revegetating native habitat. Titles often allude to the narrative experience of these spaces and provide some insight into the thought process behind the art.

Says Melissa of this work: “Etching out a path” was produced while on location in Karijini National Park (Pilbara, WA)  on a camping trip in 2018. To sit in the landscape and let it imprint itself on you; a remembering; a tangible thought; the smell of mineral rich earth. Drawing for me becomes an annotation of landscape; a shorthand writing; a synthesis of experience.”