Her clay sculptures have earned Best in Show, First Place, People's Choice, and Best in Theme recognition across multiple juried competitions.
Then there are the beads…
In bead embroidery and sculptural beadwork, Melanie operates on a single principle — nothing is impossible to create. The same wonder that drives her clay work drives her beaded pieces, whether that's a pair of fog dragons built from three hundred individually stitched triangle scales, a spinning Alice in Wonderland carousel, or a glowing forest stump that turns out to be entirely possible one bead at a time. This work has earned a Gold Medal at FireMountain Gems, multiple Bead Dreams ribbons, Beadwork Magazine recognition, and the Grand Prize at the Museum of Beadwork in Portland, Maine.
About the Artist
Melanie is a self-taught sculptor and fantasy artist from the little mill town of Wilton, New Hampshire, where the forests are full of things that probably shouldn't exist but do anyway.
She works primarily in polymer clay, sculpting dragons whose scales are too numerous to count and faeries real enough to believe in. No molds. No templates. No rules except that a piece isn't finished until it feels alive. Each creation is one of a kind — guided by intuition and fifteen years of practice, finished when the clay says so.
