RUDKØBING, LANGELAND

Melissa Clark Nielsen er født i 1964 i Chicago, men har boet i Danmark siden 1988. Hun er uddannet arkitekt og har arbejdet i faget i over 30 år. Hun er autodidakt kunstner og tegner med tusch på forskellige medier og har udstillet siden 2016.

Melissa fanger stille øjebliksbilleder og omdanner dem til stemningsfulde grafiske originaler. Der sker med sikker hånd, fine linjer og et raffineret farvevalg, når de ikke står knivskarpt i sort/hvid.

Motiverne er inspireret af de visuelle emner hun møde I sin hverdag: bygninger, træer, blomster og andre ting hun møder på sin vej.

Hun har fornyelig været en tur til Mexico som har inspireret flere tegninger til denne sommer udstilling. Byen Puerto Vallartas farverige facader er afbilledet med en kombination af tusch, farvet blyant sammen med farvet papir som himmel – en af Melissas karakteristiske træk.
Samtidige fortsætter Melissa sit arbejde med kalk papir som hun bruger i flere lag til at opnå en dybde i værkerne.

Melissa Clark Nielsen was born in 1964 in Chicago, but has lived in Denmark since 1988. She is a trained architect and has worked in the profession for over 30 years. She is a self-taught artist who draws with ink on various media and has been exhibiting since 2016.

Melissa captures quiet snapshots and transforms them into evocative graphic originals. This is done with a sure hand, fine lines and a refined choice of colours when they are not razor sharp in black and white.

The motifs are inspired by the visual subjects she encounters in her everyday life: buildings, trees, flowers and other things she meets on her way.

She recently travelled to Mexico, which inspired several drawings for this summer exhibition. The colourful facades of the city of Puerto Vallarta are depicted with a combination of ink, coloured pencil and coloured paper as sky – one of Melissa’s characteristic features.
At the same time, Melissa continues her work with chalk paper, which she uses in several layers to achieve a depth in the works.