Artist's Statement

^{Melissa A. Robinson}

I am a full-time artist and I sell my work directly to my collectors, many of whom have become my friends. My works hang in homes all across North America, Europe, and Asia. To date, I have sold more than 1,800 original drawings and paintings.

After graduating from college with a degree in fine art and English, I worked at a LONG series of unusual and exciting jobs ranging from car sales to corporate recruitment to management stuff to unloading airplanes. I have worked in blue collar jobs and white collar jobs; with children, adults, and seniors; in affluent suburbs and in economically depressed inner city areas.

I am hopeful that my unusually broad life experiences help to keep my art accessible to a wide audience.

In June of 2003, I quit my last job and have supported myself as an artist since that time. I live to create the odd little visions that color this website (and maybe also your home or office.)

My first memory is of standing in my crib drawing on the wall with a brown crayon. I drew a rabbit wearing an apron. As soon as I finished, I saw a mistake. My bunny had both human and rabbit ears. Four ears! How embarrassing.

I recognize now that my bunny of old had two sets of ears for a reason. What a perceptive creature he must have been!

The stories and lessons and goofy snippets of life appearing in my art today are rarely - if ever - born of my own triumphs. Like that freaky four-eared bunny, my best art still comes in spite of my attempts to make it reflect what I know. If you see wisdom in my images, that perspective appears there because I need to learn that lesson, not because I have already mastered it. I make the art I need to see. I am still a little kid with a crayon. Well, with a whole heck of a lot of crayons now. I am still drawing things to learn. And if those images happen to touch your heart, too, all the better. Maybe between us we can find some meaning that would have eluded us had we remained separate.

I make art because I have always made art

and because I do not know any other way

and because I like the images that come out of me.

Art is how I make sense of the world. Art is how I communicate. Art is how I feel my emotions. The rest of my life can be a real challenge sometimes, but painting is always a treat. To me, these pictures I paint are like medicine that you ingest through your eyes. Or candy, but more than that. Goodness that shoots right through to where things matter.

Thank you for visiting. I am so glad you found me in this vast and thrilling cyber universe. Please know that your interest in my work means the world to me.

With love,

Melissa

IMPORTANT: The words & images on this site are copyrighted & may not be used FOR ANY PURPOSE without the written consent of Melissa A. Robinson.

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SPECIAL NOTE: This site is gigantic. And it evolved over the course of ten years and 2,000 paintings. So far as I know, this is the largest single-artist portfolio website on the internet. Very exciting, but I am a technological boob and I maintain this site all by myself. That means there are glitches here and there. Some pages are outdated. Some formatting looks out of whack on different browsers. You get the idea. I apologize if you run into problems. PLEASE email me and tell me about 'em so I can fix them. Thank you! Love to you, Melissa

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