About my Work.
I’m a London-based abstract painter whose work is inspired by urban landscape, architecture and the grid as a hard-edged planar device, which in my paintings is often contrasted with painterly gesture or ‘handwriting’. Colour and its ability to summon past memory, experience and sense of place also plays a part.

Other influences include music and story telling; some paintings could be described as process-led, non-linear visual diary entries in response to a given mood or state of mind.

Artwork titles are arrived at intuitively, evolving from snatches of conversation, prose or song lyrics, or from past recollections and preoccupations that imbue within the work.
My works on canvas, wood, aluminium and paper are featured on several online gallery platforms: Art Gazette, Rise Art

For all artwork enquiries please email : johanna_melvin@hotmail.com

News & exhibitions

2025