The Work

My work gives form to daydreams, memories, and time machine turbulence - - a whirlwind of Playmobil men memories and Tinder Date visions. These paintings describe collisions and explosions of the introvert and extrovert, a “Choose Your Own Adventure” of process and discovery. Collage, mark-making, deconstructing and reassembling work, create new routes through Wild West squirt-gun fights of colour, line, texture, shape, and pattern to past experiences of hot lunch Fridays and the future of a sizzling cyber romance.

The Biography

Melissa M. Merrill is a Canadian artist who lives and works in Vernon, British Columbia.

Educated in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Melissa holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a Major in Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University and studied painting, printmaking, and drawing at Red Deer College in Red Deer, Alberta. Melissa has work in private collections in British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Alberta, California, as well as the Red Deer College Student Permanent Collection.