Born in California, Melissa worked in photography before moving to England in 1971 to train Eurythmy movement in London. Known internationally as a teacher and performer of Eurythmy for the past 30 years, she is also a painter and sculptor showing in solo and group exhibitions around the UK. With these arts Melissa also works as a change consultant in organisations, with art projects in schools and with adults with special needs.

She is co-director of Eurythmy in Organisations Adult Training.

Melissa works from her studio in Grasmere, Cumbria, where she not only takes inspiration for her paintings from the surrounding Lakeland landscape but also from her travels abroad, poetry and imagination.

“My work takes its starting point form the language of colour be it in a landscape, a poem or the impressionistic view of what one sees in a passing glance or remembers when looking back via the minds’ eye. Many of my influences originate from the light and strong colours of the Mediterranean or contrastingly from subtle shades of the seas and skies around England and the Scottish islands.”