Melina Soltavi also known as “Melina Arts”, is a self taught contemporary, mixed media artist from Sydney, Australia. Her style is known to be bold and experimental, working with a series of mediums ranging from digital to watercolour, ink, acrylic, graphite and colour pencils. Her specialty in portrait illustrations explore significant moods and emotions, aimed to be expressive through the use of bold colours, layering of materials and different textures. As a studied landscape architect, her work often reflects a connectivity to natures colours. 8sing the beauty of the natural world as an inspiration of the colours and textures used in the artworks. Melina’s artistic style is always expanding, learning new forms of art and combining traditional techniques. Line art, abstract art, realism and simplistic styles outline the broad variation included in Melina Arts’s practices. “I believe in constantly expanding and experimenting new ways of expression. Learning new forms of art to create your own unique style.”