Private: Melissa Neil

Melissa Neil is a Canadian painter based in Hamilton, Ontario. Neil is known for her lushly painted landscapes on mylar and linen. Her work exalts the wild, mystical and sentimental found in forms of nature – both naturally occurring and manufactured by humans – often drawing on such imagery as gravel pits, brush piles, sand dunes, sand pits, beach vegetation and structures.

Melissa Neil is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design. Her work has been exhibited at Carnegie Gallery, (Dundas), Youme Gallery (Hamilton), Hamilton Public Library, Assembly Gallery (Hamilton), Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, 2016; Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition: Tradition Transformed, Orillia Museum of Art & History; Studio Huddle, Toronto, 2014 and at Fine & Dandy window gallery, Toronto, 2014. Melissa is a recipient of the City of Hamilton, City Enrichment Fund Emerging Artist Project Grant. Her work is held in private collections in Ontario.