| Melanie McCollin-Walker wowed at this year’s Glover Prize by being crowned the People’s Choice winner. Expect to be wowed again by the glorious new landscapes in her At First Light exhibition.
Melanie’s Glover winning painting, Long Way Home, took us into the heart of the Tarkine/takayna, and she revisits this sacred space for her upcoming exhibition. “I don’t know what it is about this place. It’s something innate,” she reveals. Once more she immerses us into the incredible landscape. “I take the viewer with me as we paddle up the Savage and Whyte Rivers.”
As well as her beautifully intricate detail, it is the dawn light, the moment the first shards of light pierce a blackened sky, that makes Melanie’s latest paintings so captivating. It is also winter. The light is soft and pure and “a diffused mist wraps the scene in a special softness. This is my ode to that magical moment in time.”
As well as smaller and medium sized works, Melanie will unveil some large “Glover-sized pieces.” In one of these, rays of dazzling yellow and orange slice through the dark as we float along the river. Against the dark silhouette of the background, the light hits one tree which glows. “It was magical. I would not have believed it happened. But it did.”
Melanie McCollin-Walker’s At First Light exhibition runs at Handmark from November 29 until December 16. |