Handsel Gallery - Melinda Cowdery

Melinda Cowdery

Melinda Cowdery Biography Oregon artist, Melinda Cowdery was born in Greeley, Colorado in 1953. Since birth, she has been gifted in drawing, painting and illustrating. In 1956, the family moved to Northern California, where Melinda spent her grade school years. In 1967, she moved with her family to Olympia, Washington, where she attended Jr. and Sr. High School, and graduated in 1972. Following High School, Melinda became a student at The Museum Art School of Portland, Oregon where she had 2 years of formal art education. After completing her education, Melinda embarked upon a career in fine jewelry design and manufacture, met her future husband, and moved to Los Angeles to work in the jewelry industry there. Melinda and her husband, Gary Cowdery have worked continuously as custom designers and manufacturers of fine jewelry. They live in the small coastal town of Lincoln City, Oregon, and work there. In 1986, Melinda decided to pursue a career as a painter as well as a jeweler, and she began showing watercolors at the Ryan Gallery of Lincoln City. . Over the years, Melinda has done a remarkable variety of paintings, both in terms of subject matter and of media. Although she is primarily a realist, Melinda’s artwork often employs abstract and conceptual elements too, which give her paintings a distinctive look. Because of her lifetime affection for animals of all types, Melinda often depicts them in her work. She favors familiar creatures for her subjects, including dogs, cats, roosters, farm animals, and birds of many varieties. Melinda routinely uses her animal subjects to portray universal emotions common to all life, whether human or animal like humor, joy, sadness and love to name a few. Many of Melinda’s collectors feel that she has an uncanny ability to depict individuality and complex feelings in a very simple and straightforward way.

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