Melissa Mostyn

Melissa Mostyn at work

Melissa Mostyn: "Friends in the Shade," 2024. Watercolour and mixed media

Melissa Mostyn: "Ben into the Spider-Verse (after Marvel)," 2023. Watercolour and mixed media

Melissa Mostyn: "Issy aged 14", 2023. Pen and ink

Melissa Mostyn: "Relentless," 2022. Mixed media and acrylic, paper collage

Melissa Mostyn: "Self-portrait as a young girl," 2023. Mixed-media drawing

Melissa Mostyn: "For Pa and Simon," 2021. Coloured pen and ink. Available in print only

Melissa Mostyn: "Doorsteps study," 2025. Watercolour and mixed media

Melissa Mostyn: "Thatched cottage at dusk," 2025. Watercolour

Melissa Mostyn: "Thatched roof and tall chimney," 2025. Watercolour

Melissa Mostyn: "Thatched cottage in light shade", 2025. Watercolour, Posca pen

Melissa Mostyn: "Fairy village backyard", 2018. Coloured pen and ink, paper collage. Available in print only

Melissa Mostyn: "Last night I dreamt of hares in sensor lights," 2023. Mixed media and paper collage

Melissa Mostyn: "Accessible treehouse," 2018. Pen and ink. Available in print only

Melissa Mostyn: "Italianate rooftops," 2018. Pen and ink

Melissa Mostyn: "Tree drawing," 2023. Coloured pen and ink.

Melissa Mostyn: "White willow sketch," 2026. Pen and ink. Available in print only

Art Forms

Drawing, Mixed media, Multi-disciplinary, Painting

Exhibition and News

2026 A Letter in Mind (organised by the National Brain Appeal), Gallery Different, London

2025 Extended Longlist, Jackson’s Art Prize

2023 Bucks Open Art Exhibition, Discover Bucks, Aylesbury

2022-23 Grayson’s Art Club: The Exhibition, MAC Birmingham

2021-22 The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Art Library, New York and St Petersberg, Florida

2018 A Series of Events Part I, Platform 1 Gallery, Wandsworth Common, and A Series of Events Part II, Princes Hall, Aldershot

Bucks Art Weeks in 2009 and 2011

2005-9 Founder-Director of Salon D’Art CIC, a Deaf conceptual visual arts organisation funded by Arts Council England and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

Other selected achievements:

I have written two plays: The Promise (2024), a feature-length production co-written with Paula Garfield that toured nationally and to the West End, and Keeping Hope (2021), a 20-minute monologue based on my lockdown experiences. I am also the writer-director of CODA (2011), a 10-minute family drama short, and listen, even when your heart is crying (2014), which was Official Selection at Aesthetica 2015 and nominated as Best Documentary at the 2015 CINEDeaf Awards. Both can be viewed on LumoTV YouTube.

Biography

I am a Deaf, neurodivergent, multidisciplinary visual artist and writer who experiments with a range of materials as the mood takes me. My current visual art practice blends fine-line drawing, mixed-media paper collage and watercolour.

My creative approach can often feel very disparate and fragmented. Regardless there is a common thread running throughout of nostalgia, storytelling, family, child’s play, Deaf culture, flora and fauna, and local history. Coming from a large extended family of writers and artists who grew up in the Seventies and Eighties, I have great affection for this mix of memory and escapism, and often draw inspiration from archive photos, classic children’s book illustrations and exploratory walks.

An alumnus of Central Saint Martins (MA Fashion Journalism/Promotion, Pass with Distinction), I have sustained a portfolio career over 30 years in various creative roles incorporating theatre, film, journalism, book publishing, arts project management and arts consultancy/marketing. Past clientele includes Tate, V&A, The Design Museum, Phaidon Press, Modern Art Oxford, The Royal Collection Trust, Deafinitely Theatre, Vogue, The Independent, the BBC and Channel 4.

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Melissa Mostyn