MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY STORE

We love discovering local gems and are delighted to share with you the works of Melissa Keighran in the Gallery Store this festive season. Melissa lives in Maitland and resides amounst the chaos of raising small children and managing a home renovation all with a few curious pet chickens in tow!

Calm is not at all conjured by this image but is certainly evoked across all aspects of Melissa’s artistic practice. Her works are small, refined and intimate still life paintings that capture all the simple things in life beautifully – an arrangement of bottles perched upon a shelf, a perfectly imperfect fruit bowl, vases and flowers capturing the afternoon light shadow –each painted with a level