Exhibitions, Shows et al

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

November 2021 Pop Up Gallery The Shambles, Bradford on Avon

October 2020 Pop Up Gallery Silver Street, Bradford on Avon

November 2019 - Festivals & The Sea West Barn, Bradford on Avon

March 2019 - Painting & Drawings from the Artist in Residency at The Hall West Barn, Bradford on Avon

May 2018 - SEA SKY LOVE 2 Works inspired by the sea, Poole and 2016 Artist in residency in Santa Maria e Rignana in Tuscany West Barn, Bradford on Avon

September 2016 -Upstairs at the Hatch Gallery, Christchurch. Oil painting inspired by the sea in Dorset.

March 2016 -Lighthouse, Poole 'Return to the Sea - Exhibition of paintings from Studland to the Caribbean'

November 2015 - SEA SKY LOVE The Vaults, Bradford on Avon

March 2015 - Oil paintings - traditional and experimental West Barn, Bradford on Avon

March 2O14 - The Sea off Bermuda, The Scilly Isles and St Ives. Explorations with oil paint around the subject of the nude. West Barn, Bradford on Avon

March 2013 - 'WINTER LIGHT' West Barn, Bradford on Avon

September 2012 - Rick Fairies Gallery , Masterworks Museum, Bermuda. www.bermudamasterworks.org
Solo show of work produced as Artist in Residence in Bermuda from 10th July to 29th September

May 2012 - OPEN STUDIO & SHOW 2012 Cloth Road Arts Week www.clothroadartists.com

October 2011 - LIGHT 2 West Barn, Bradford on Avon

June 2011 - Large scale works at the Ale & Porter, Bradford on Avon

October 2010 - 'Light' West Barn, Bradford on Avon First solo exhibition. Natural Light in the Tithe Barn

'Wonderful, full of mist and light'
'Fantastic. You've found your voice - Beautiful, exciting and full of those once only moments (such as the white paint picking up just the tops of the canvas.)
So ALIVE.'
'I'm enjoying the light and great atmospheres in your work'.

GROUP SHOWS

May 2022 Selected for Bath Society of Artists Annual Show at Victoria Art Gallery, Bath

April 2022 First Prize AWARD Vera Skinner Award for 'Bananas, Costa Rica' Frome Art Society

October 2020 Selected for Bath Society of Artists Annual Show online

June 2020 Invited by Somerset Re-Acquainted to submit and exhibit work made in response to the Lockdown

https://somersetartworks.org.uk/somersetreacquainted/melissa-wishart/

September 2019 Selected by Royal Society of Marine Artists annual show at the Mall Galleries, London

2019 Selected by Bath Society of Artists Annual Show at Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.

2016 Selected by Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual show at the Mall Galleries, London

Previous Group shows -

May 2011 Dolly Mixtures Group at the Ginger Piggery, Boyton as part of Wylye Valley Art Trail

May 2011 Milsom Place, Bath. Spring Show with Liz Watts and Kerrie McNeil

April 2011 Abbey House Gardens, Malmesbury with Liz Watts and Sue Thompson

May 2010 Cloth Road Arts Week Open Studio

2010 Black Swan Open, Frome (selected)

2010 Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath (selected)

2010 Frome Art Society, Black Swan Guild - Spring & Autumn shows

2010 Angel, Upton Scudamore with Jane Eaton
2010 Abbey House Gardens, Malmesbury - joint show 'Nature Blossoming in the Garden' with Liz Watts,
2010 Art House Co-operative '6 Reasons to be Cheerful' in Bradford on Avon Arts Festival
2010 Art House Co-operative at the Ale and Porter, Bradford on Avon
2010 'Transcription' Show with Bath Artists Studio Sculpture Group

Awards in 2010
Appleyard Trophy Prize from Frome Art Society

2009 Art House Co-operative on Tour Venues: Wells and Scribbling Horse, Bradford on Avon
2009 Nature's Rich Weave with Liz Watts Abbey House Gardens, Malmesbury (home of the Naked Gardeners)
2009 Wylye Valley Art Trail with Dolly Mixtures Ginger Piggery, Boyton
2008 Selected for Bath Artists Society Open
2008 Art House Co-operative on Tour
2007 Art House Co-operative Gallery, Silver Street
2007 Wylye Valley Art Trail Dolly Mixtures, Ginger Piggery
2006 & 2004 Somerset Arts Week Churchmead Artists, Woolverton, Somerset
2005 Churchmead Artists (by invitation)
2004 Dolly Mixtures 'Exposed' The Brewery Barn, Norton St Philip, Somerset
2001 Royal West of England Academy. SELECTED Best of Contemporary Painting Open

LECTURES

November 2014 NADFAS
Melissa was invited by NADFAS Devizes to lecture and run their Study Day on
'Exploring the tradition of Oil Painting through the Artists' Depiction of Light'.

14th century to present day focussing on artists who used light or explored it in a notable way
and the concurrent developments in oil painting method, technique and chemistry that went alongside.
Titian, Rembrandt, Turner, Vermeer and Monet, Whistler, Hammershoi and contemporary artists such Eliasson who work with light itself.

PUBLIC ART COMMISSION

'Laurence'
Bradford on Avon Town Council and Tourist Office asked Melissa to paint Laurence to go outside the Tourist Information Centre in Bradford on Avon for the Lions of Bath event. Selected artists painted lions throughout spring 2010 for their individual sponsors mostly in Bath but three in Bradford on Avon. The sponsors then put the lions on public show throughout the summer. In the autumn the lions were auctioned raising substantial sums for charity. Laurence was outside the Tourist Information Centre in Bradford on Avon from May to September. He was enjoyed by locals and visitors from around the world. www.lionsofbath.com

Melissa drew her inspiration for Laurence (the name given by the Tourist Office) from the unique pair of carved angels in the saxon Church of St Laurence in Bradford on Avon.

Melissa is well known for her sky paintings so the angels were given a beautiful cobalt blue sky to live in. All the detailing is carefully based on Bradford on Avon's rich history, for example the roman mosaics found recently near St Laurence School are portrayed on Laurence's anklet and he sports a gold thigh band of Saxon design.