Drinking from the midnight pond

Drinking from the midnight pondMelissa Lakey is an artist and illustrator based in Joshua Tree, California, where the windows of her art studio look out onto the Mojave Desert. Her colorful mixed media paintings explore the magic of the American Southwest, as well as night, summertime, road trips, solitude, and friendship. She creates work based on both real memories and imaginary places shed like to visit swimming, dreaming, in the sunshine and under the moonlight. Show title:

yet distinctive

Stacking toys help develop both the body and the brain starting around six months

In 2018 she started experimenting more with bending wood and exploring sculptural wall hangings

Like so many others during the pandemic

opaque colors and smooth blending capabilities

also a graphic designer

Melissa Lakey is an artist and illustrator based in Joshua Tree

favorite book) to the quirky (first diaper blow-out

in the artist's words: "I like to imagine myself watching night clouds floating over the islands

and friendship

and Sebastian hidden on the back

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