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Rebirth -
Melinda's own recent
Soul Essence painting

melinda blair paterson

Melinda Blair Paterson is an Australian artist, born and educated in Adelaide, with twenty years experience in the corporate world, before moving to Byron Bay on the north coast of New South Wales to follow her passion. From an early age she has been able to sense and feel the energy of other people and in her late twenties this emerged more fully, resulting in the creation of a range of vibrational essences. Now a committed artist she calls her work Soul Essence Art, and her greatest passion is painting commissioned intuitive 'energy portraits' of other people. These are not portraits in the normal sense, but abstract and symbolic representations of the person's soul. The artwork is contemporary, using vivid colour, texture and layering.

Melinda’s emergence as an artist was a spontaneous awakening after the death of her Mother in 2002. Her initial artistic expressions were detailed symbolic drawings using pens and pencils. In 2004 she felt a strong urge to express her creative talents on a much larger scale. Self-taught she shares how it all started:

"It was Easter Sunday, a beautiful autumn sunny day and I had the house to myself. I was playing with paint on a large canvas: pouring the paint on, splashing it on, brushing it on. And it just wasn’t working. So I decided to cover the canvas with white paint and start again. I used my hands to spread the paint every which way, enjoying its gooey feeling. The colours from the underlying paints began to mix with the white: soft pinks, greens and yellows emerged. It felt so delicious! I stepped back and was amazed at what had been created. In my mind’s eye I saw a large cross in the middle of the painting. I grabbed a roller and emphasized this symbol on the canvas. Immediately I felt an energy surge through me. It was palpable. I knew I was on the right track. I looked again at the canvas and saw angel’s wings coming from the base of the cross. I grabbed the brush and lightly created the wings. Energy surged through me again and I knew it was done. I called the painting 'Angels Wings'. I knew that day that I had connected with my soul essence."

After nine months of experimenting and exploring paint and canvas a friend and architect, visiting from Melbourne, asked if she could purchase a number of Melinda’s artworks. This woman went on to commission other pieces for family and friends and sponsored Melinda’s first exhibition Christ Consciousness, shown in the Byron Bay Community Centre in January 2006.

Melinda has continued to receive a steady flow of commissions from clients in Australia and overseas. She has also shown her second exhibition Erotic Consciousness in Byron Bay in December 2006.

Her current work-in-progress is The Significance collection exploring the human qualities she feels are of importance in relationship, expressed as landscapes.

She says, "I have found it a fascinating journey to be exploring my spirituality and consciousness through my art. I am blessed to live in a beautiful part of the world (Byron Bay) where I can draw inspiration from the majesty of Mother Nature and this open-hearted community on a daily basis. As an emerging artist I am excited to have the opportunity to bring my work to the broader community."
 

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