SAMANTHA MELVIN
GENIUS LOCI
September 4 – October 5, 2025
Opening reception: Saturday, September 6, 5-7pm
Artist Talk: Sunday, September 14, 2pm
Link and Pin Art Space is proud to welcome Samantha Melvin. Melvin’s work investigates the dynamics of landscape and space from the lens of a gardener and an artist. The colorful mixed-media languages of drawing, painting and printmaking speak vibrantly about these environments where the grid reflects the human imprint. Through layered botanical abstractions and patterns, gestural conversations of color, light, and form explore materiality and the biophilic interrelation of interior and exterior.
Melvin explores our interaction with nature by focusing on the regional native species of wildflowers, plants and tall grass species. Botanical shapes reference the varieties of plant species from her home and her travels as a celebration of place. Plants’ wild diversity is natural to where they take root – a living web of interconnected parts in which we plant ourselves. It is their adaptability within this web that reflects the ingenuity of a species in each locality. They are the spirit of the place, “genius loci.”
Samantha Melvin is an artist, art educator and arts advocate. Her research-based, multi-disciplinary artistic practice includes drawing, painting, and printmaking that focuses on the interaction between humans and nature. She is passionate about native species in particular, and the complex web of which we are all a part. A nationally recognized art educator, she is a contributing author to STEAM Education: An Interdisciplinary Look at Art in the Curriculum (2024). She has a M.A. in Art Education from the University of Florida (2015), and a M.F.A. in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design (2023). Samantha teaches printmaking workshops at Flatbed Press, Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Austin, TX. She exhibits her work regularly, across the US and internationally. She is a master gardener and loves to travel. Samantha lives in the hill country outside of Austin, TX.
Picture Credit: Entangled Existence, Samantha Melvin