Meet the artist

Melissa Loyd is a painter and mixed media artist creating landscapes that explore the juxtaposition of handmade patterns integrated into landscapes that are both gestural and realistically rendered. 

She graduated with a BFA from Metropolitan State College of Denver in 2006 with an emphasis in Communication Design. Melissa’s love of pattern was born out of her background in design and she began pursuing painting after the birth of her youngest child. 

Melissa was raised in Denver, where she still resides with her husband and four children. She works out of her garage-converted studio in the pockets of time she finds between mothering her four children.