Collection: Melissa Mailer-Yates Artist Biography and Art Gallery Collection

Melissa Mailer-Yates creates artwork that is simultaneously powerful and vulnerable, and the subjects, usually the portraits of women, are beautiful and intriguing. In addition to her work in portraiture, she has been widely recognized for her equestrian painting and has been made an associate member of the Society of Equestrian Artists. Melissa Mailer-Yates stretches her own canvas for painting and uses only 5 colors in her palette, not including black, treating the acrylic paint almost as oil paint, thinning it and blocking out tones that will be built upon in subsequent layers. The result is work that is sensual, beautiful, and as powerful as the subjects who sit for her. She is particularly articulate concerning her own work and its place within the halls of Art history thus creating a demand for lectures, other public speaking events, and her writings. Her books include her first published children's book The Bogglebott, a work in progress based on Shakespeare for children, and her first novel Packwood a historical novel. Commissions include those portraits for her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Prince Nawaf and Princess Jawaher of the Saudi Arabian Royal Family, as well as other celebrities and nobility throughout the World. Some of Melissa Mailer-Yates more interesting commissions has been a series of equestrian works for Royal Doulton, and a series of celebrity portraits which was the centerpiece for the opening of the Los Angeles Art Show.

Melissa Mailer-Yates works can be found in many countries apart from the United Kingdom, including the United States of America, Canada, the Middle East, Africa, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway and Australia. She has had solo exhibitions throughout the U.K. and in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Aspen. Elected Associate of the Society of Equestrian Artists 1997, Elected to member of the Fine Art Trade Guild 1998, and Honorary Board Member of the Association of Fine Art Dealers of America in 1999. Together with Ivana Trump, she co-hosted the 1999 Spirit of Freedom Award in Aspen, during which she presented one of her paintings and a sculpture by Marton Varo to Goldie Hawn, an award for her work in Tibet.