Melanie Field Art | Abstract Paintings | Frame Workshop & Gallery

Melanie Field

PAINTER / AUCKLAND

BIO

About Melanie Field

Melanie Field is an abstract painter based between Auckland and Wānaka, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her intuitive paintings explore energy and the space between the seen and unseen.

A deeply creative child, Melanie spent hours drawing and playing music, but struggled with perfectionism and moved away from painting in her teens, pursuing a career in graphic design instead. She went on to work in publishing in both the UK and New Zealand, including roles at Fashion Quarterly and as Creative Director for ACP’s home titles. She was awarded Art Director of the Year at the Magazine Publishing Awards.

After stepping away to raise her children, Melanie spent several years studying counselling and family therapy, discovering art therapy and process-based art practices along the way. She later trained as a Process Arts tutor and taught from her own studio. She describes this period as her own ‘creative rehabilitation’, working through perfectionism and finding her way back to an intuitive approach to making.

In her mid-forties, Melanie returned to painting at Browne School of Art in Auckland, where she spent five years immersed in a painting education grounded in abstraction. Her work was first noticed by Frame Workshop & Gallery during her second exhibition with Browne. Her solo exhibitions with the gallery include Orchestra of Light and Natural Phenomena.

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