Krystii melanie biography

Facts about Krystii Melaine .
At the age of four Krystii Melaine announced that she was going to be an artist.
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Born in Australia, Krystii Melaine was a quiet but determined child. Announcing at the age of four that she was going to be an artist, Krystii won her first art competition at seven and was selling paintings by the age of fourteen. Following university studies in drawing and graphic design, and in need of a
“real job”, Krystii established her own fashion design company. By her early twenties she developed The House of Mystique into one of the largest bridal and evening-wear companies in Australia, and had shown her designs in Paris and London.

But a burning desire to return to her dream of being an artist led Krystii to leave fashion behind and undertake five years of atelier study in traditional tonal realism. She became a successful wildlife and portrait artist in Australia, but the market there was limited. A trip to the USA in 1998 opened opportunities to paint American wildlife and an international career was born. During ten years of commuting between countries, Krystii discovered a fascination with the American West and she began seeking out cowboys and Native Americans to

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Krystii Melanie

Birth place or City of origin:	Bairsdlae Victoria
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Last known City:	Colbert
Last known State:	WA
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At the age of four Krystii Melaine announced that she was going to be an artist. At age seven she won her first art competition and she taking commissions for paintings by the of fourteen. The Australian native studied painting, drawing, photography and graphic design and soon set up her own fashion design company, developing it into one of the largest bridal-wear companies in Australia.

A desire to return to painting led Melanie to spend five years studying traditional tonal realism and oil-painting techniques. Her passion for wildlife and fascination for people became the major inspirations of her paintings. Melanie travels widely in search of subjects and regular travels in the American West have inspired her to explore the life of modern working cowboys. A new home in Colbert, Washington, has given her more access to many of her favorite subjects. Of her art, Melanie explains, "To