Melissa Chandon considers herself to be an abstract realist. Among her greatest influences she cites the Bay Area Figurative painters, specifically Richard Diebenkorn. She also feels that were i not for her friend and mentor Professor Wayne Thiebaud of UC Davis, she would not be the painter that she is today. Perhaps her greatest influence, however, is her environment. "I have always been, even as a small child, strongly influenced by my environment. I paint narrative journals of my life which, in and of themselves, are complete worlds." The paradox of creating an image while portraying a complete story within the confines of a two-dimensional surface is the challenge foremost in Melissa's mind while she works.
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