Melissa Shemanna

Welcome to this gallery of my paintings! They are mostly done in egg tempera and oil glazing techniques with pure pigments and hand-made mediums. I really love working with layers of sheer colour glazing to get rich and luminous engagement with colour and light. Building form with multidimensional shadow sculpting and luminous light accentuation, encourages the shape to emerge from the imaginary realms onto the canvas.
I have been painting in oils and egg tempera, drawing, sculpting etc for 30+years and will always be an eager student and apprentice to life and loves mastery.