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Krystii Melaine
Born in Victoria, Australia,
Krystii Melaine announced at the age of four that she
was going to be an artist, won her first art competition
at seven, and by the age of fourteen was selling
paintings and accepting commissions. Following
University studies in painting, drawing, graphic design
and photography, Krystii enjoyed a highly successful
career as a fashion designer. Developing her
bridal-wear company into one of the largest in
Australia, her elegant, sculptural gowns were sold
throughout Australia and New Zealand, and were shown in
Paris and London.
A burning desire to return to
her life-long passion for painting led Krystii to five
years of study in traditional tonal realism with the
renowned Australian artist, Graham Moore. Her
fascination for people and wildlife became the primary
inspirations for her oil paintings, and Krystii is now
recognized as one of Australia’s and America’s premier
fine artists. Her work is regularly exhibited in art
museums and important exhibitions across North America
and her paintings are held in museum collections
including the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville,
Georgia, Military museums in Australia, and many private
collections around the world.
After ten years of travelling
regularly from her home in Australia to the USA, Krystii
and her husband have moved permanently to Spokane,
Washington to be nearer to her favorite Western and
wildlife subjects. Krystii also paints still life and
commissioned portraits, and has completed many official
portraits for museum collections and the Australian
Army, Air Force and Navy.
Numerous awards have included
Best of Show at Heart of the West; First Prize 2
Dimensional at Cowgirl Up!; The Painting Award at the
Buffalo Bill Art Show; Best Of Show at Nature Works four
times; The Award of Merit – Bird in Arts For The Parks;
and Best Australian Native Wildlife Artist. Krystii
regularly exhibits in Museum shows including Masters of
the American West, Quest for the West, The Russell,
Birds in Art, Cowgirl Up!, Night of Artists, The
Buffalo Bill Art Show, and has twelve solo exhibitions.
The books Feather and Brush:
Three Centuries of Australian Bird Art, Best of
Worldwide Oil Artists, Volume 1, and “Star Wars Art
Visions” feature Krystii’s paintings. Articles about
her work have appeared in Southwest Art, Art of the
West, Western Art Collector, Wildlife Art and other
magazines.
Krystii is represented by The
Legacy Galleries, Scottsdale AZ & Jackson WY, Mountain
Trails Gallery, Park City UT, Big Horn Galleries, Cody
WY, Hayden Hays Galleries, Colorado Springs CO, and
Decoys & Wildlife Gallery, Frenchtown NJ.
Krystii Melaine’s powerful oil
paintings express the wonderful beauty and diversity of
the people and wildlife of the American West and
beyond. Through her paintings, she hopes to inspire us
to really appreciate all living things, and to see and
experience the world with the passion of an artist. |
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