Mel McKenzie
Mel McKenzie is a New Zealand artist, based in rural Southland. Her award-winning, unique artistic narrative resides at the crossroads of reality and abstraction and is collected throughout NZ and overseas.
With oil paint as her chosen medium, Mel represents water, land, and light in blurry, but luminous artworks. Through the application of layers of paint, points of light become shimmering ornaments on canvas. Capturing fleeting moments of beauty to elevate our daily landmarks, inviting us to explore the world anew through the artist’s eyes.
Looking at Mel’s art, is to find yourself immersed in a place of mystery, with a strong, sometimes elusive, note of familiarity. Capturing the likeness of iconic NZ scenes through beguiling, blurry paintings renders the possibility of being anywhere in the world, but those who know will recognize a painting’s reference.
Mel also brings skills harnessed from years of academic and professional work in public health, to current roles as member of the Southland Arts Society, co-founder of Shop Southland Studios and Trustee of Arts Murihiku. Along with husband Logan and 4 children, she lives - and paints - on their family farm in Seaward Downs.
Catch the Morning
$1,150.00 Sold
Better This Way
$850.00
Nothing Left to Prove
$850.00 Sold
As Long as it Takes
$850.00
In the Time Between
$1,050.00 Sold
Letting it All Fall Away
$1,050.00 Sold
Holding on to Yesterday
$1,050.00 Sold
Already a Memory
$2,200.00
Back Soon
$2,850.00
Loosening the Knot
$1,150.00 Sold
The Unraveling Hour
$1,150.00 Sold
It's Only Everything
$2,850.00 Sold
I Think it might be Magic
$1,980.00
In Light of it All
$1,980.00
Good Things Take Time
$1,150.00 Sold
The Pause Beside the Pond
$1,150.00
The Path Beckoned Us Home
$1,150.00 Sold
Listen with Your Eyes
$1,150.00 Sold
One of These Nights
$1,150.00 Sold
From Up on High
$1,150.00 Sold
Begin Again
$1,150.00 Sold
Roundabout
$1,150.00 Sold
Finding The Light
$1,150.00 Sold
Tangled
$1,150.00
The Harbour's Crown
$1,990.00 Sold
Give Me Your Answer Do
$1,150.00 Sold
Wander Through the Wildwood
$1,150.00 Sold
Dancing with the Moon
$850.00 Sold
Sleeping Like a Baby
$850.00 Sold
Treasure Box
$850.00 Sold
Heading Home
$850.00 Sold
Those Duck Pond Days
$1,990.00 Sold
To Polish an Octagon
$1,000.00 Sold
Trusting the Path
$950.00 Sold
Princes Street
$950.00 Sold