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Portfolio of previous work

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2022 - 2023

The Moon from Mull

The dynamic light and dark skies in the Hebrides provided inspiration for this moonlit series of landscape paintings.

2021 - 2023

Summers turning into autumn 

A selection of paintings documenting life as I found my feet on the Isle of Mull, exploring nearby ancient sites and getting to know my favourite mountain - Benbuie.

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'Tobermory' Yellow Corduroy Mens Waistcoat made by Melissa on the Isle of Mull

2021 - 2023

Hebridean Waistcoats

I designed, cut and stitched a range of bespoke limited edition waistcoats featuring organic materials, Liberty prints and artisan tweed woven at Ardalanish isle of Mull weavers mill

2018 - 2020

Grief

This series of paintings proved to be an outlet, part of the process of confronting tidal waves of my own grief, each piece is also infused my research into funghi, nuclear waste and the memory of water.

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2016 - 2019

Cloud Cuckoo land

A symbolic response to the surreal nature of the time, paper cutouts, collage and mandala paintings investigate the hypnotic political landscape and language of politicians hands.

2016 - 2018

Toxic waste

During this time my research and paintings honed in on trees with carrier bags for leaves, plastic in the ocean from polyester garments, the destruction caused by single use plastics and being overloaded with statistics...

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2011 - 2023

Timeless Womenswear

In 2011, I launched my first collection collection of made to measure womenswear, since then it's been a pleasure to make thousands of bespoke garments for various special events and weddings across the globe. 

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