Celina Melo
Celina Melo
Acrylic
Mixed Media
Celina Melo is a landscape painter, working in acrylic and mixed media. Melo graduated from York University with a BFA Hons. Spec. Visual Arts and a B.Ed in 2006. She has been the Coordinator of the Lakeshore Art Trail since 2020. She is also a juried member of Colour and Form Society, a member of Mississauga Arts Council, and Ontario College of Teachers. She is currently the Arts Department Head of a Mississauga high school. She lives in Mississauga and enjoys cottage life in Tiny on the shores of Georgian Bay with her husband and daughters.
Website: celinamelo.com
Mixed Media
Celina Melo is a landscape painter, working in acrylic and mixed media. Melo graduated from York University with a BFA Hons. Spec. Visual Arts and a B.Ed in 2006. She has been the Coordinator of the Lakeshore Art Trail since 2020. She is also a juried member of Colour and Form Society, a member of Mississauga Arts Council, and Ontario College of Teachers. She is currently the Arts Department Head of a Mississauga high school. She lives in Mississauga and enjoys cottage life in Tiny on the shores of Georgian Bay with her husband and daughters.
Website: celinamelo.com
ARTIST STATEMENT
I’ve always been drawn to the water. Its transformative power and simultaneous calming energy have captured my soul. Georgian Bay has become my muse, as I find myself compelled to convey and celebrate its intensity and rhythm. My paintings explore the possibilities of representing the reflective, dynamic qualities of water, snow and sky through mixed media. Moving across the heavily textured canvas, the lustre of the pouring medium mimics the sparkle and dynamism of water. Bold textures balance and contrast with the delicate sheen, just as nature and life grace us with tranquility and engulf us simultaneously. Gestural lines and glass-like pools of pouring medium lie over aspects of painted imagery to create a landscape that meanders between abstraction and realism. Through my paintings, I invite the viewer to my therapeutic, yet overwhelming experience of standing at the water’s edge.
I’ve always been drawn to the water. Its transformative power and simultaneous calming energy have captured my soul. Georgian Bay has become my muse, as I find myself compelled to convey and celebrate its intensity and rhythm. My paintings explore the possibilities of representing the reflective, dynamic qualities of water, snow and sky through mixed media. Moving across the heavily textured canvas, the lustre of the pouring medium mimics the sparkle and dynamism of water. Bold textures balance and contrast with the delicate sheen, just as nature and life grace us with tranquility and engulf us simultaneously. Gestural lines and glass-like pools of pouring medium lie over aspects of painted imagery to create a landscape that meanders between abstraction and realism. Through my paintings, I invite the viewer to my therapeutic, yet overwhelming experience of standing at the water’s edge.