A wildlife, portrait, and still-life painter in realist, Old Master style, Krystii Melaine reflects her fascination with her subjects' appearance, behavior, light color and form. 

Melaine grew up in an area by Bairnsdale, Victoria, which had much forested land, and she did much observing of wild birds and animals.  By the age of four, she determined to be an artist and at age 14, she was already selling her paintings and getting commissions. 

She studied painting, drawing, graphic design, and photography and then established in Adelaide, Australia, her own fashion wear company, with products marketed throughout Australia and New Zealand.

A strong desire to return to art led her to work with Australian Graham Moore, who was in his 80s when he instructed her in portraiture, still life and landscape painting.

Although Krystii Melaine is originally from Australia, she is now a permanent resident in the state of Washington.  She travels regularly

around the American West and exhibits widely there including the Buffalo Bill Art Show in Cody, Wyoming; Nature Works in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Arts for

the Parks in Wyoming, and Birds in Art at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wisconsin.

(Courtesy of AskArt)

 

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