One More Nap in the Flowers

One More Nap in the FlowersMelissa 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. About this

"I’m a scavenger of colors and shapes

New Tomato - Smells like earthy vine and juicy tomato

I collect them and weave them together

This piece is a collaboration with Belinda Bodner

Equal parts inspiration and instruction

a romantic flower long popular in bridal bouquets (symbolizing prosperity and a happy marriage)

and clean air to a host of animals and insects

This collection of work representing the textures

In 2011 she moved to Thailand

meditative escape from the present

and travel

she can be found playing her cello in the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra and gazing at any and all planes and clouds that happen to be flying or floating overhead