Melissa McCanna works from her studio in Kingston, Washington with acrylic and mixed media. Her vibrant imagery reflects her Mexican American heritage and global experiences, featuring market scenes, flora, birds, and Pacific Northwest landscapes. Her narrative paintings explore concepts of heritage and the veil between the natural world and our manufactured world. Influenced by her time abroad with the U.S. Navy and her studies in Russian language and culture, McCanna’s work is rich in emotion, memory, and layered storytelling.