Mélissa Galin

Mélissa Hélène Galin born of a Franco Celtic mother and a mixed-race father of Antillean and Aboriginal origins.

She was born on February 28, 1986 in the suburbs of Paris in a musical, festive and intellectual environment.
As soon as she knew how to hold a brush she began to paint, declaring early that she would be a painter.

After a semi-chaotic course on the school benches, she moved to London in 2006, a decisive choice that will mark her debut in the art world by meeting John Bloxham and her contemporary art gallery.
For almost 5 years she collaborated with John Bloxham Galery, which is located in Clapham junction, a trendy area of the capital.
Then begin the first sales and attendance at the Chelsea art club which his gallery owner is a member.

Melissa paints everything, inspired by the palette of what seems beautiful to Her (Picasso, Kandinsky, Dali, Shiele to name only them) without frame, without guideline, with no precise goal except that of painting; without academic training, free from the shackles and potential demands of classical training and discipline, his painting remains wise, however, as governed by the fear of shocking or displeasing.

A few years later her gallerist retired, she decided to settle in Paris in an apartment near Montmartre which will soon be transformed into a workshop.

At the same time she began studying art history at the Sorbonne, you must learn, understand the basics of art and aesthetics.
Follow the many visits to museums, and the discovery one day Jean Michel Basquiat who will be a trigger, an electroshock! he will change his painting, his ideas, this young Afro black American fan of Charly Parker becomes a master:
So it is possible and allowed to express themselves without limit, to scribble while remaining in the beautiful?
New pictorial impetus, new conquest of art, painting is as liberated.