Melanson, Paulette

Born in Scoudouc, New Brunswick, Paulette Melanson is an Acadian painter who has been living in Nova Scotia since 1985. She currently lives in Lunenburg. She has taken courses at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and at the Montreal Visual Arts Centre where she painted under the guidance of Harold Klunder. She holds degrees in science and education.

Melanson has been painting for 30 years and has been exhibiting her work since 2008. She has participated in over 100 group and artist feature shows including 12 solo shows.

Her work is in public collections: the Official Residence of the Canadian Embassy in Paris, France and the Nova Scotia Art Bank as well as in private collections: Canada, USA, UK, Denmark and Taiwan.

Artist statement

I am both an abstract and a landscape painter. I find one informs the other. I am interested in creating spaces where people can get lost and escape momentarily from life’s problems and current events. I would describe my painting process as an unconscious exploration of materials that eventually emerges into themes. Throughout the process I remain completely detached from the outcome; an automatism type process that goes on for extended periods of time until I find meaning in the layers of paint.