WAUPUN — The Waupun Fine Arts gallery at the Waupun Public Library is hosting a gallery featuring art from Melissa Standlee, covering a variety of genres.
Melissa Standlee grew up in California and spent family vacations hiking the Sierra Nevada, where she developed a life-long appreciation for nature.
She produces works of art in four general genres, neurographic, whimsical, scriptural, and photographs. Subjects typically include nature scenes and animals, as well as photography of rustic America.
“While attempting to draw a dog one day, the pencil slipped and what was meant to be the ear looked more like the horn of a rhino, which began a series of whimsical animals,” she said.
In 2022, she discovered a neurographic art during a time of major life changes, which she found meditative and calming. Neurographic art is a therapeutic abstract style where the artist starts with random initial lines until a pattern emerges, often resembling things found in nature.
Standlee now runs a Facebook page called “Beyond Salvage” to share her art with the world, using the “creative gifts God has built into her to communicate to others His goodness, faithfulness, and love.”
Several works of each genre are included in the gallery, which will be on display on the second floor of the Waupun Public Library through June 5.
