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Born in Australia, Krystii Melaine was a quiet but determined child. Announcing at the age of four that she was going to be an artist, Krystii won her first art competition at seven and was selling paintings by the age of fourteen. Following university studies in drawing and graphic design, and in need of a
“real job”, Krystii established her own fashion design company. By her early twenties she developed The House of Mystique into one of the largest bridal and evening-wear companies in Australia, and had shown her designs in Paris and London.

But a burning desire to return to her dream of being an artist led Krystii to leave fashion behind and undertake five years of atelier study in traditional tonal realism. She became a successful wildlife and portrait artist in Australia, but the market there was limited. A trip to the USA in 1998 opened opportunities to paint American wildlife and an international career was born. During ten years of commuting between countries, Krystii disco

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By Gussie Fauntleroy

Rope and Reins, oil, 32 x 24 by Krystii Melanie

Australian painter Krystii Melaine had a childhood that left her well prepared for a future career in the often solitary business of art-making—but it also left her dubiously prepared to function in the world. “I was absolutely the shyest kid ever invented,” she relates. “It seems like I didn’t say anything to anybody until I was 17. Then in high school I got a job as a waitress, I was out there on my own, and it was a rude awakening because I realized I had to talk.”

Now 43, she appears to have lost any trace of reluctance with words. She speaks quickly, humorously, and warmly as she gazes out over miles of eucalyptus trees and sheep-ranching land from her hilltop home in the middle of nowhere, south of Sydney, New South Wales. Melaine and her husband don’t actually have sheep on their 75 acres, just flocks of wild parrots and cockatoos and a hundred or so wild kangaroos who, until they put up fen