Melanie Christon attended Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied

glass-blowing with Dale Chihuli. She was a stained-glass artist in NYC, commissions include The Other End and The Figaro Cafe.  She studied painting at The School of Visual Arts and The City University of New York, graduating  with a B.A. in Art.  
She also studied with several abstract painters of the New York School, her most influential teacher was Patricia Passlof, a student of Willem de Kooning.

Melanie moved to New England and began painting en plein-air, she studied with  David Curtis, and Caleb Stone in MA, and with Stan Moeller, in York, ME.

Melanie has won numerous awards, in 2008 she was awarded the popular vote at the Thatcher Island Show, in Rockport, MA. She has exhibited at many events including Beacon Hill Art Walk, in Boston, MA, The Danforth Museum, Essex Art Center, and The Crane Estate. She is a member of The Newburyport Art Association, NH Plein Air, and co-founder of Essex County Painters.

Melanie paints in her studio and along the coast from Newburyport to Cape Ann.

She is represented by:

Bodin Historical Photo and Fine Art, Gloucester, MA

Sisters We Three, Newburyport, MA