Collection: Melaine, Krystii

Australian-born Krystii Melaine announced at age four that she would be an artist, won her first art competition at seven, and was selling paintings by age fourteen. Following university studies in painting and drawing, Melaine became a successful wedding gown designer.

Returning to her lifelong passion for painting, she studied traditional tonal realism for five years. Inspired by the wildlife, Native Americans, and cowboys of the American West, Melaine began painting these subjects in Australia, then moved to Spokane, Washington. Using oils in a contemporary realism style, Melaine portrays the people and animals of the West with a modern eye for fresh images, bringing each individual to life on her canvas.

Melaine’s paintings feature in major museum exhibitions including Night of Artists, Quest for the West, Western Visions, and the Buffalo Bill Art Show. She has twenty-six paintings in museum collections, continues to win numerous awards, and features in many magazine articles.

Melaine is represented by Sanders Galleries in Tucson; Mountain Trails Galleries in Jackson, Wyoming, Park City, Utah, and Bozeman, Montana; Santa Fe Trails Gallery in Santa Fe; Broadmoor Galleries in Colorado Springs; Going to the Sun Gallery in Whitefish, Montana; Big Horn Galleries in Cody, Wyoming; Marshall Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona; and Trailside Galleries online. She is a master signature member of the American Women Artists and a member of the Portrait Society of America.