Melissa Lakey is an artist and illustrator based in Joshua Tree, California, where the windows of her art studio look out into the Mojave Desert.
She wanted to be a cowgirl when she grew up but ended up an artist instead, and now cowboys ride through her paintings, picking flowers and stopping to swim in every creek they pass.
A lover of art materials, she uses ink, gouache, watercolor, acrylic, colored pencil, and oil pastel, painting quickly and leaving room in each painting for surprises, experiments, and play.
Her colorful work celebrates the landscape, people, and animals of the American Southwest. 
We love working with Melissa, for she is a genuine spirit who explores her personal style and portrays her dreams in her dynamic pallet.
Melissa is staring in our new show opening February 23rd in Waxahachie and true to a Tumbling Tumbleweed Road Show, her work then travels and is shown in our West Texas Fort Davis location on March 8th.