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Impact   pastel 67x46 cms    $2950

Sorrento Shore pastel 47x28 cms

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Blairegowrie Shore pastel 47x28 cms

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Last Summer at Sorrento pastel 67x46 cms  $2950

Coffs Pool pastel 47x33 cms  $1200

Last Summer at Sorrento pastel 36x46 cms $1200

Low Tide Mills Beach pastel

Lyn Mellady, A.G.R.A.

Lyn Mellady is past President of the Australian Guild of Realist Artists (A.G.R.A.) a member, of the Pastel Society of Victoria and "Brushmen of the Bay". While her personal painting is her highest priority, she is constantly asked to teach, judge art shows and has professionally demonstrated her techniques to many hundreds of artists.

Since 1984 she has received many awards for both pastel and oil. Her paintings have been acquired for Sutherland, Campbelltown, Frankston, Susomo and Nagoya (Japan) government collections. Lyn has featured in Australian art reference books, as well as local and international art publications.

Travels in Australia are a constant search for the special conditions that imprint the character of the area into her memory. Each work has a focus based on Lyn's personal observation and the reality is subtly shaped for emphasise. Her main love is the language of water in the landscape.

Lyn was born in Quirindi, NSW and grew up in Sydney’s Cronulla beach areas. She has taught ballet ARAD, became a primary school teacher, then consultant art teacher. Her own artwork emerged and it has become her chosen occupation since 1981. Today she relishes the challenge of combining spontaneity with careful technique.
After being finalist in the first International Pastel Excellence Art Landscape Awards, Lyn was asked to share her painting thoughts which appear in the Autumn Pastel International Magazine no 14,2002. She is featured in three art reference books and many art magazines. Four paintings are in print . There is a limited edition series of graphite drawings of Sydney. Five works have been acquired for government collections. Lyn’s paintings are in corporate and private collections on all continents. She is a member of the Brushmen of the Bay,a councillor of the Australian Guild of Realist Artists and member of Pastel Artists of Victoria ( where she has been a major prizewinner in their annual exhibition 5 times in the last 6 years). Lyn exhibits at Flinders and Sorrento Fine Art Galleries on the Mornington Peninsula.