Mel works from her studio at Wimbledon Art Studios, a collective of over 150 artists housed in an industrial estate in Southwest London. She is largely self-taught, but since 2015 has attended various group classes, both in person and on-line, including at the Heatherley School of Art; Penn School of Art; Winslow Art Centre and the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts. She reads widely and loves that art provides her with an arena where there will always be technical skills to master and new worlds to explore: there will never come a time when she will be able to say, “I have learned it all”.