Natural Phenomena | Melanie Field Solo Exhibition | 29 April - 16 May
In this new series, Melanie moves deeper into the intuitive, bodily and elemental practice that defines her work. These latest paintings emerge through a process that is less directed than surrendered to, a form of deep listening and receiving.
Many of the works undergo several lives, processing and shifting through multiple iterations before arriving at their natural and organic conclusion. Rather than imposing an outcome, Melanie follows what the painting asks of her, letting intuition, instinct and gesture shape the unfolding process and work.
Across this evolving body of work, the canvases span a wide emotional and tonal spectrum. Some arise from deep ore-red/burgundy grounds; earthy, shadowed and full of subterranean pressure, while others open into pale, transparent, veiled pieces. Together they form a continuum, a conversation between what lies hidden and what emerges, between contraction and expansion, darkness and illumination. These shifts are not oppositions but tensions in the same living field.
The paintings hold their own atmospheres: places that feel both grounded and ethereal, familiar yet otherworldly. Through layered gestures, veils of colour and the slow accumulation and subtraction of paint, Melanie creates realms that breathe, vibrate and shift; subtle phenomena that invite the viewer into a deeper kind of seeing. They are not landscapes in any literal sense, but territories of sensation, memory and experience, shaped by intuitive forces that lead each painting through its gradual, natural evolution.
Download the exhibition catalogue here.
In our Q&A, A Deepening into Light with Melanie Field, the artist explores intuition, restraint, and a subtle move from control into flow. Click here to read the conversation.
'How Melanie Field rebuilt her creative practice, one layer at a time' Read The Post's interview with Melanie here.
