Dancing in the Rain

Dancing in the RainMelissa Lakey is an artist and illustrator based in Joshua Tree, California, where the windows of her art studio look out onto the Mojave Desert. Her colorful mixed media paintings explore the magic of the American Southwest, as well as night, summertime, road trips, solitude, and friendship. She creates work based on both real memories and imaginary places shed like to visit swimming, dreaming, in the sunshine and under the moonlight. About this

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an inner feeling of delight and awe in the infinite possibilities of imagination

By the end of the year

green represents an open heart

Linda’s move to Los Angeles in 2009 coincided with her re-interest in studio pottery and a love of exploring the outdoors

My approach to painting is characterized by a focus on design and composition

rains that plunge

and the experienced kiln owners began teaching us how to prepare firewood and maintain the traditional kilns

The open sea

I decided to add in a contrasting background which highlights the graphic aspects of these elements within these natural compositions

every product is locally produced and hand-assembled in their studio

Sandalwood