Melissa Milton was born in the Southern United States during the turbulent 1960’s. She came of age in the groovy 1970’s. The colorful clothing, creative décor, and unusual approaches to thinking during those decades often influences her artistic expression.

Melissa enjoys each visual art object’s potential of expressing an idea in a new way which perhaps some people may have not seen before.  She begins many of her art pieces with a story, idea, or question she would like to visually depict. These may become expressed as a memory, a philosophy, a fairy tale, a forewarning, or some other concept.

At other times Melissa enjoys drawing the viewer into a world of whimsy. Tapping into the 10 year old child still residing within her, she creates whimsical creatures and scenarios which will hopefully delight and entertain the ten year old child living within the art viewer.

Despite her advancing age, Melissa feels that as long as there are questions to ask, ideas to ponder, or stories to tell, ideas for new art pieces will continue to present themselves to her.