News from the Forge and upcoming exhibitions this summer 2025
Following the sucess of ‘Curators Corner’ exhibition at The Pound in April this year, you can see a selection of Melissa’s forged metal sculptures at Talos Art Gallery. Located in rural Wiltshire, Talos Art Gallery is in Heddington near Calne and opens this summer 2025.
Talos Art Gallery is a lovely space to see sculptures in a garden setting and wooded area. There are interior galleries in the beautiful interior old dairy barn.
Curated and hosted by sculptor Richard Atkinson-Willes, the exhibition is open from 1st June – 27th July 2025 Thursday – Sunday 11am -5pm. You can find out more and book tickets here.
Forged steel, zinc plated, lacquer, raw marble.
9026 x 22cm
2015
Landscape sculptures by Melissa will be located in and around the lovely private gardens which have breathtaking views of Roundway Hill outside Devizes.
Smaller works, ‘Momentum No. 2’ and new piece ‘Momentum No. 3’ will be on show alongside ‘Lifeline’ in the gallery and the modualr large landscape pieces near the woodland area.
You can see a wide selection of other sculptures by renowned artists including Elaine Peto (ceramics), Rebecca Hawkins, Nick Rugg (stone), Alex Ralph (steel) & Amy Goodwin (bronze) shown with work by Richard Atkinson-Willes.
Later this summer on the last two weekends of July, Melissa will open her forge and gallery ‘Shed 7’ for http://www.marlboroughopenstudios.co.uk where you can see the smaller landscape works and a new collection of sculptures in copper.
Sign up here to be on the mailing list for a private viewing in July at ‘Shed 7’
Melissa continues to teach one-to-one blacksmithing and metal sculpture courses and is now taking bookings for September 2025 onwards.