Melanie Goemans
Over the past 20 years Melanie has exhibited at the Jerwood Space, Florence Trust, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, Glyndebourne amongst others. Her work is held in collections worldwide such as the Pizzuti Collection, Imago Mundi Collection, Exton Park Vineyard, Fox Linton, Bridgeman Art Library. Most recently she completed a commission for The Dorchester in London. Melanie’s paintings were also featured recently in the John Moores Painting Prize, ING Discerning Eye, and the National Open Art Exhibition.
“Walking my dogs in the early morning I notice the small seasonal shifts. I think about the quiet beauty in the everyday, particularly in the natural commonplace things, rarely celebrated. My paintings are inspired by what I see around me: the form of a tree; the long lines of twining stems; the intricacies of birds in flight. Often I am reminded of a poem or a piece of music and revisit an idea resonating there. I use traditional materials – oil, gold leaf, charcoal, gesso – my work draws attention to these fleeting moments and underscores their value.”
2023: Summer Exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath
2021: John Moores Painting Prize 2020, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2020: ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, online
2016: 20th National Open Art Exhibition (NOA), Mercers’ Hall, London EC2V
2015: ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London SW1 (invited artist)
2007: Deep Inspiration, Jerwood Space. London SE1 (commended work)
SOLO
2023: ‘Like strings of broken lyres’, Irving Contemporary, Oxford
2021: wander | wonder, Irving Contemporary, Oxford
2020: ‘Long I Stood’, Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance
2018: Tree. Bird. Stone. Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance
2018: Melanie Goemans, The Old Fire Engine House, Ely
2004: In Between, Florence Trust, Highbury, London N5
2001: And then what? Ondaatje Hall, Blundell’s School, Tiverton, Devon
2001: Absence and Presence, Geest Gallery, Ayscoughfee Hall, Spalding, Lincolnshire
SELECTED GROUP
2023: Carter | Goemans | Vestgard, Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance
2023: Commissioned work on permanent display at the new Artists’ Bar, The Dorchester, London
2022: London Original Print Fair, Somerset House, with Long & Ryle
2022: 3-person show, Byard Art, Cambridge
2021: Autumn Exhibition, Eastwood Fine Art, Hampshire
2021: Forces of Nature, Gallery 94 at Glyndebourne Opera House, Lewes
2021: Crouchman-Goemans-Max, The Old Fire Engine House, Ely
2020: Anniversary Exhibition, Kittoe Contemporary at 155a Gallery, London SE22
2020: England: Talking of Art, Contemporary Artists from England, Fondazione Imago Mundi, Italy
2019: The Stories We Can Tell, The Stratford Gallery, Stratford upon Avon
2019: The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, Southampton Row, London WC1
2019: Light into Colour, Sewell Centre Gallery, Radley College, Oxford
2018: Autumn Show, Eastwood Fine Art, Hampshire
2018: In All Line of Order, The Stratford Gallery, Stratford upon Avon
2017: Bridgeman Gallery Summer Salon, Palm Tree Gallery, Portobello Road, London
2016: Goemans | Kiernan | Pack, Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance
2015: The Classics: Gallery Artists, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Charlotte Street, London
2015: ‘Flowers say I ♡ You’, The Gallery – Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge
2015: Magna Carta, with Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Bingham Room, Gray’s Inn, London
2015: The Still Point, Quercus Gallery, Bath
2014: Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, with Rebecca Hossack Gallery
2014: Art14 Onsite, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Conway Street, London W1T
2013: Summertime, jaggedart, London W1G
2013: London Original Print Fair, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts
2007: Equinox, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London W1K
2007: Drawn from Nature, Seven Bedford Row, London WC1R
2006: Blooming, Twist Art & Design, London SW6
2006: Affordable Art Fair Battersea, with Twist Art & Design
2004: New Landscape Painting, Thompson’s – the City, London EC2R
2004: Ft04 (end of residency show), Florence Trust, Highbury, London N5
2002: Small Paintings and Prints, Belgrave Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2002: St Ives, Modern and Contemporary, Belgrave Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2000: Internationales Kunstprojekt, Evangelische Realschule, Ortenberg, Germany
1999: Ida Branson Memorial Bequest Exhibition, Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Somerset
1998: MA show, The Pittville Gallery, School of Art, Uni. of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham