by Melinda Sinclair | May 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
For more than two weeks now, I have been lost in what feels to me like “the color swamp” – dragging three different paintings with me. Layers and layers of paint, lots of radical obliteration of layers, shifts in direction … No matter what I...
by Melinda Sinclair | Apr 30, 2026 | Uncategorized
The wisdom of practicing appropriate scepticism, advocacy and agency when dealing with human-designed systems and processes We are all subject to numerous “human designed” systems and processes. Health care. Banking. Food safety. Immigration. The school system....
by Melinda Sinclair | Apr 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
What do we really mean when we say “trust the process”? When is it helpful – and when is it not? How can we “trust the process” with discernment, overcoming our often unhelpful need for control, while avoiding naïve optimism? The idea of “trusting the process” has...
by Melinda Sinclair | Apr 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
I have been thinking and writing about opaque processes: ones where we do not know, indeed cannot see, what’s happening, nor can we know what the outcome of the processes will be. We live much of our life embedded in and entangled with such opaque processes. And...
by Melinda Sinclair | Mar 13, 2026 | Uncategorized
The painting at the top of this post is one of several pieces that have emerged over the last few weeks. It is clearly showing something in process. Something is happening here, something not yet complete. And yet, the image leaves much unanswered. What is the nature...
by Melinda Sinclair | Feb 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
What is the purest way to express the energy of a moment in a painting? Time and again, I return to pure black and white line paintings for this purpose. A white surface and black paint – either straight from the tube or mixed. Just one tool. No distraction of...
