Melissa Gile is a self-taught artist working out of her home studio located in Hamburg, Germany. She grew up in Seattle and has resided in Germany since 2014. Her paintings have been exhibited in Hamburg and Berlin, with features internationally by Create! Magazine, Visionary Art Collective, The Curator’s Salon, The Purposeful Mayo, the Candy Floss Magazine, and more. Through her work Gile explores her emotional relationship with home and living her dream from across the world. Inspired by impressionist, abstract and surrealist styles, she incorporates themes from nature and fantasy in her works to facilitate a romantic sense of bliss in her abstract dreamscapes.
Inspired by her adventure of finding home away from home, Melissa’s paintings explore her intimate relationship with the near and the far in her current series “Dreamland.” By playing with perspective and color, she facilitates a variety of moods that share her romantic journey of finding a home in two different worlds. She explores the beauty of this experience by inviting spontaneity and play into her process. Starting with a vibrant, contrasting color palette, she sets the tone of the painting with a smooth gradient base layer. Out of the movement and imperfections of this gradient, she spontaneously adds frames and details, allowing leaves and impressions of foliage to grow from the cracks and shadows in an otherwise abstract picture. She lets life bloom from these spaces, pouring love into the process as she plays. Novelty and spontaneity are essential elements of her practice, the fast drying times of acrylic paints being a core part of this. Her strong love for the flora of her Pacific Northwest home is echoed across her paintings, culminating in an electrifying yet sensual aesthetic. Her hope is to inspire people to pause and get lost in the romance and enchantment of life, momentarily escaping into a dream of their own.
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