Melanie de Boehmler

A lifetime of travelling and living in Australian and New Zealand

 bushland, countryside, and several years in the Big Smoke, has had a

 deep impact on me, my love of nature and the fascination I have for its

 many creatures (human and otherwise). The body of paintings I have

produced are a kind of instinctive homage to these precious lands that I

 hold so dear; while the drawings have been an indulgence for my love

 for spontaneous character invention. Although the style and themes of

 my drawings and paintings may come out very differently, the intuitive

 process I engaged to produce them is the same; subjects have been

 conjured from my imagination and sense of what feels right according

 to memories, intuition and my own rather warped sense of humour.

 Melancholy, movement, fine rendering and the absurd all feature.