Ross Melville

“My artwork has been inspired by scenes viewed from places I have visited and captured on film or sketched on location. I have been interested in art from my teenage years and I tend to favour traditional landscape painting. Now 54 years old, I still experiment with colour in a variety of mediums, and since joining Project Ability's Trongate Studios some four years ago after a mental breakdown, I have enthusiastically pursued art and have benefited from the facilities provided by all the staff members (i.e. framing, exhibition opportunities and all aspects of the art world).

The main reasons my work is of a traditional nature is firstly because I like work that is recognisable in its content, and that depicts nature in all its forms with a mixture of vibrant colours and interesting light and shade; and secondly because it has a light, simplistic effect, which I find therapeutic since developing my illness.

I have previously shown at a number of venues with mixed success, and through Project Ability I have exhibited in Britannic Asset Management's corporate headquarters, at the Glasgow Art Fair and in the Lie of the Land exhibition at Project Ability in May 2005.”

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