Melissa McGill

03/28/2026

"The Place You Came From" | Acrylic on 88 # Printmaking Paper | Changes Series
Inspired by Terry Pratchett's words — "Why do you go away? So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving" — and the luminous color fields of mid-century modern painting, this abstract expressionist work draws you into a glowing center of light surrounded by deep, layered blues. Loose, gestural marks in amber, rose, yellow, and teal drift through transparent layers and soft stain painting techniques, giving the piece an open, breathing quality unique to works on printmaking paper.
Part of the Changes series — paintings about departure, perspective, and the extra colors life adds along the way.

Saatchi Art is pleased to offer the painting, "The Place You Came From," by Melissa Mcgill, available for purchase at $880 USD. Original Painting: Acrylic on Paper. Size is 30 H x 22 W x 0.1 in.

05/07/2025

“Many Kinds Of Love” acrylic on 12 x 36” raw canvas.

“I think...if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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04/29/2025

“I Still Love You” 8 x 12 encaustic monotype on Abaca paper. Available with a 12 x 16 mat.

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” Elbert Hubbard
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04/07/2025

Watercolor, ink and pigment monotypes on rice paper.
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03/31/2025

“Cats Are Nice”, Watercolor monotype on 16 x 20” kitakata paper.

“I meant,” said Ipslore bitterly, “what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?” Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.” Terry Pratchett - Sorcery, Discworld no 5
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03/09/2025

“Live Out Loud’ watercolor monotype on 16 x 20” Kitakata paper.

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
Emile Zola
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02/26/2025

“So Sweet”abstract watercolor monotype on 16 x 20” Kitakata paper.

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” Emily Dickinson
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02/08/2025

“The Present Moment”, watercolor monotype on 9.5 x 10” mulberry paper.

“The past has no power over the present moment.”
Eckhart Tolle
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01/20/2025

01/18/2025

“One Gesture” watercolor monotype on unbleached mulberry paper
“And that is how change happens, one gesture, one person, one moment at a time.”
Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
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01/16/2025

“What You Left Behind”

Abstract watercolor monotype on unbleached mulberry paper.

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
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