Artist Bio

Melissa Van Cleave
Biography

Welcome to the journey of Melissa Van Cleave and her unique form of sensuality that is captured through erotic paintings and poetry. Melissa was born and raised in Indiana, where she lived most of her life on a lake in a swimsuit and flip-flops … bathing in the erotic waters of her imagination.

Melissa’s creative adventures began as a child when she was captivated with drawing the erotic beauty in nature and wild horses. She later began her study of the sacred feminine through week-long excursions into the Mayan culture of Mesoamerica. Working with indigenous shamans and artists as her teachers, she discovered the unique creative voice and teacher within.

Melissa paints and writes about the journey of feeling the erotic in her body. She feels that being erotic is the interior essence that resides within everyone. She believes we can live this excitement if we will allow the interior light bulb to turn on … and feel the erotic … be the erotic … being truly alive in living life every single day. Through the erotic.

Living the possible resides inside us first. So each of Melissa’s paintings is infused with an inner wisdom that helps the viewer discover her or his own unique erotic essence. Melissa’s paintings entice you to feel the joy, both inside and out, of truly being alive in the beauty of living. This is what erotic means to her … feelings, with no shame…feeling life around her through all of her body … risking being more in the beauty of nakedness. Her paintings mirror this. They mirror back to the viewer a deep message … a message that you are perfect in each moment just as you are … a message that you can dream more and can find the possibilities that you are yet to become.

Owning a unique piece of spiritual erotic art by Melissa Van Cleave can unveil your possibilities in the natural beauty of your own erotic essence. Her work will open you; will help you break through the boundaries and barriers that the physical body harbors. You will risk being more with life in your own uniqueness.

“The pulse of erotic passion lives in everything we touch, see and feel. In believing this, the excitement resides first inside of us. Then the magic gradually brings the courage to walk with this excitement in the outside world, experiencing the true glory of our nakedness.”

Melissa Van Cleave, erotic artist and writer
260-414-4086
www.PaintingsByMelissa.com 
PO Box 5029
Fort Wayne, In 46895