The spirit of nature, and its' sacredness, inspires Rebecca Meloy's art.
Scandinavian heritage since the medieval ages, immigrant Finnish farmers, rugged pioneering Norwegians, and ten generations of Swedish Lutheran ministers, are Rebecca's matrix and her art, resultantly, has a strong affinity to the environment.
Growing up on a small Oregon farm, her memories are of summer and its' bounty of food and sun. Her paintings evoke a dreamlike memory playing off the juxtaposition of light and dark.
In 2004 Rebecca presented a one-woman exhibition at the Seattle Nordic Heritage Museum, a body of work created in Finland while an Artist in Residence at the Nelimarkka-Museo in the country-side near Alajarvi Finland. At that time she met dozens of Ostrobothnian cousins and visited her grandparent's childhood farms.
Rebecca studied at Cornish College in Seattle with Sherry Markovitz, Kathleen Rabel, John Overton, Charles Stokes, Sarah Clark-Langager, Robert Yoder, Nori Saito, and at Western Washington University with Tom Johnston, among others. Via workshops, she has studied with local artists Karen Guzak and Pam Ingalls, and with Richard Steiner from Japan.
Rebecca has instinctively been a life-long artist. In November of 2022 Rebecca opened the Meloy Gallery in downtown Bellingham Washington in the Bay Street Village. For eight years she owned and managed Meloy & Company Gallery in Fairhaven, Bellingham.
She is a long time Bellingham landscape designer, having studied with Ron Rule from the University of British Columbia, as well as a master carpenter via the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.
