I have been painting for over 30 years and I have been creative for most of my life. I like to communicate visually. My art aims to connect.
I have always been creative and I cannot remember the first time or the first piece of art that I made. I struggled with learning how to talk and I developed stutters and stammers, which led me to having speech therapy, whilst at school. Visual creativity was my way to communicate.
I am a kinesthetic learner, which means that I learn best through experience. I learnt earlier on, that my creativity came from how I felt rather than what I see.
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At college, I studied fine art specialising in impressionism. I graduated in the Northwest of England, with a BA Hons in design.
In the last 20 years, I have had been struggling with my physical and mental health. Going through life, I have learnt and practiced meditation to be more aware and mindful, this informs my current art practice.
In the last 20 years I have been exhibiting and showing my art. In the last 10 years I have had solo exhibitions. In the last 5 years, I have moved from showing locally, to showing nationally and in the last 2 years, I have been showing internationally. This year 2022, I have been awarded 2 international awards, one in May and one in June.
I am an international multi-award winning, inter-disciplinary artist.
Brought up in inner city London, he is an artist who is from a migrant background, who has chronic illness and is a married gay man, in a multi-cultural relationship. He has often been bullied both as a child and as an adult.
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Through all this, creativity was his solace and strength. When he was younger, he was always being creative. He continues to seek refuge and freedom in his creativity.
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He was a Royal Society of Arts finalist and graduated with an Honous degree.
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Mel paints directly on to canvas. This gives his work a visceral quality. His work straddles the line between abstract and representational, having a range of different visual styles, while maintaining a unified language of colour, line, and texture, which makes it both unique and recognisable.