Biography

Melanie Foster, born in 1964, is an artist who is inspired by her love of art and life.

From childhood on, which she spent in the region of Weserbergland, Holzminden, Weser (Lower Saxony), she was fascinated by the art of painting and spent a great deal of her free time with painting pictures. After her time at school she started her professional career and was trained as an artist at the porcelain factory Fürstenberg where she passed with distinction in the year 1984.

In the following years, she intensively studied famous artists who painted subjects like flowers, fruit and hunting. She also dealt with gold decoration and figure staffage. Besides enjoying the painting of subjects that occur in nature, she managed to refine her skills even further by painting full particulars of the respective objects.

She rendered her sound education, her capabilities and knowledge as well as her enthusiasm for colours and shapes successfully in product development of the porcelain factory Fürstenberg near Hanover. Among other things, she was responsible there for colleagues and trainees who studied the subject of hand painting.

Her further education in oil and watercolour painting enabled her to express her feelings for nature in an impressive way both on canvas and paper.

Since 1996 she has been working in her own studio both for commercial and private customers. Her artistic spontaneity and the individual requests of her customers are a continuous inspiration for her. By now, numerous customers all over Europe appreciate the particularity of nature paintings on porcelain as well as her successful interpretations of themes relating to nature and technical objects in oil, watercolour and acrylic paintings.

It is a personal challenge for her to be able to pass on her abilities to artistically gifted persons who are interested in painting. Individually selected seminars therefore constitute an important part of her work.

Moreover, some of her works are regularly displayed in selected exhibitions in different places all over the Federal Republic of Germany.

Since 2004 she has been working in a newly-designed studio in the Weserbergland. This is where both her porcelain and painting works are created. Intensive seminar training with a focus on the subject of porcelain painting also takes place in these surroundings in a pleasant atmosphere in only small groups.