ARTIST JOURNAL | Notes from the studio
Inspiration, new work, and stories about life and travel.
Creative Process: How I See | Curve
One of the things that I want to do a better job of is giving you a bit of a bigger picture when I share my art with you. For instance, photography is a huge part of my creative process. It’s how I see and discover details. I actually used to work...
Pantone Color of the Year 2023: Viva Magenta
The Pantone Color of the Year for 2023 is Viva Magenta. Now, I'm not one to create to trends -- not since I stopped designing prints for the fashion industry, but I can usually find something that addresses them in my archive! If you enjoy playing...
How Categorizing My Art Held Me Back
Beautiful Paia in Maui. Photograph by Melanie Biehle, November 2022Sometimes the message is subtle. In other times, our intuition knocks us down with knowledge like a rogue wave. My epiphany was closer to the latter. If you’ve looked around...
Behind the Scenes: Daily Journaling
I honestly don’t know why it feels so hard to just “show up”. Maybe my brain is winning this round. You know how your brain can sometimes “reason” its way around everything until there’s nothing left? Or, more likely in my case, it makes the thing...
New Art: Invitation
I’m not sure when I realized that art is like a portal to a place inside yourself. If you’ve visited my home page lately, I try to describe this feeling. What it means to me. How I hope you feel when you "step inside" and live with one of my works...
Collector Spotlight: Kim Brotherton
Melanie’s paintings feel to me like they contain other worlds, and also evoke worlds from within. The earthy, deep quality of her Abstract Landscape series particularly spoke to me and after months of returning to her online gallery, I was thrilled...
Simple Pleasures Abstract Landscape Collaboration with Casa di LaValle
Update: Many of the original paintings have sold. Available paintings will have a direct link to purchase when you click on the image. If the original has sold and a print is available, there will be a link to it when you click on the image. I’m so...
Mood Board Monday: Traveling Through Tuscany
This week I’ll be launching my latest painting collection – Simple Pleasures. It’s another collaboration with my friend Cassandra LaValle, an extremely talented interior stylist and curator of the beautiful shop Casa di LaValle. I’ll spill more...
Artist Feature: CanvasRebel Magazine
Jess from CanvasRebel Magazine reached out to me recently to learn more about my background and art practice. Here’s a link to the interview! If you'd like to read more articles and interviews, check out my press page. If you're a publisher and...