Artist Highlight

Melinda Nemechek is a landscape artist whose paintings spark your memories and inspire you to dream. Melinda is best known for her majestic oil landscapes of the Rocky Mountain West and her “canyon” paintings of the Southwest.

Dominated by mountains and grand western skies, the vibrant colors of the changing seasons are the backdrop for creeks, flowers and the Aspen trees of the Rocky Mountains. The drama of light and shadow patterns in nature inspires every painting. Melinda captures a magical moment in time that is peaceful and serene; that looks untouched, except a trail or a little cabin. She uses a close up, limited perspective that leads the viewer into feeling that he or she is actually a witness to the scene.

Melinda lives and paints in her mountain studio Southwest of Denver at an altitude of almost 9,000 feet. The studio setting, surrounded by Aspen and Pine, provides unlimited subject material for Melinda’s Rocky Mountain landscapes. An avid hiker, Melinda has hiked many of Colorado’s “Fourteeners” and highest passes, the Grand Canyon and much of the canyon country of the Southwest.