Melanie Fain
Melanie Ann (Huckaby) Fain, (born October 14, 1958) is a printmaker specializing in wildlife art. The Texas artist is best known for her etchings and watercolors featuring birds, botanicals, insects, and sporting themes.
Melanie Fain's professional art career began in 1982 when she studied the process of Intaglio printmaking and began creating etchings with incredible detail. Fain sites Thomas Aquinas Daly and Thomas Quinn as important influences in the development of her distinctive style.
Melanie Fain's etchings and watercolors have been featured in numerous exhibitions, museums and gallery shows throughout the United States including: Birds in Art, in Wausau, Wisconsin; Blossom- The Art of Flowers; Art of the Animal Kingdom in Bennington, Vermont; and The Society of Animal Artists.
Melanie's work has been featured in periodicals including: Southwest Art Magazine, Wildlife Art Magazine, The Hunting Retriever Magazine, and Gray's Sporting Journal. Melanie's art has been published in two books: Icons of Loss and Grace, written by Susan Hanson, and, Is This Forever or What: Poems and Paintings of Texas, by Naomi Shihab Nye.
Melanie Fain's etchings and watercolors are included in private and public collections including: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Southwest Airlines, COX Communications, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Wells Fargo Bank, and the renowned King Ranch in Kingsville, Texas.
Official Website
External Links
The Society of Animal Artists
Artists for Conservation
Birds In Art
The Hill Country Arts Foundation
Giacobbe-Fritz Fine Art
The Richard James Galleries
The Hunt Gallery
The Gallery at Round Top
The Susan Kathleen Black Foundation
References
Melanie Fain's Website
Artists for Conservation
Press Release
Hanson, Susan, (2004). Icons of Loss and Grace, Texas Tech University Press.
Nye, Naomi Shihab, (2004). Is This Forever; or What: Poems and Paintings of Texas, Greenwillow Press, pps: 4, 138, 143.