Peak Experience

Mel Hills Wild Art

Opening Event :
Thursday 14 August 2025, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Opening Hours:
10:30am – 4:30pm daily
*exhibition viewing after 2:00pm on Wednesday 13 August / after completion of install**

Daily Painting in action from 1:00pm (Monday – Friday)

An awe inspired exploration of Tasmania’s mountain wilderness through the poetry of paint, touching on light gilded rock faces and alpine wildflowers tenaciously bejewelling the edges of blue shadowed chasms.
Perhaps ‘I lost my compass’ would be an apt title too.

After many years of ‘getting around to it’ Mel Hills has finally started this series of mountain celebration paintings. 

Come for the ultimate lightweight bushwalk.
Guaranteed no scrub.
Fitness level optional.

Leave your heavy gear behind and prepare to have your breath snatched by awe inspiring mountain vistas, yawning chasms, towering peaks nd scintillating waterfalls. See the mist veils rising- giving glimpses of blue shadowed cliffs, studded with the gems of alpine flowers.

Imagine an icy dip in a mountain tarn while the last light gilds the surrounding peaks in gold and the cold mountain wind whispers through the crags..

With evident inspiration and influence from great Tasmanian landscape photographers such as Dombrovski and Truchannas, Mel composes poetic and breathtaking paintings of our iconic landscapes and details the flora and fauna that help make them so special.

Each painting is meticulously researched and may have a supporting folio of work, enabling a glimpse into the creation process.

The main body of this exhibition is a series of oil paintings on triple primed board and hand framed in timber. All have hanging wires and  D rings attached. Full interpretation information is presented with the artwork and also attached to the rear of the painting. 

The artist will be present for the duration of the exhibition for ridicule, track notes, general chit chat as desired and is likely to be plying a brush for part of each day.