Melissa Carter has always been creative. Ten years ago, she tried some watercolor classes and was hooked. Her art has evolved since then to include bright colors and textures using other mediums. Melissa is always exploring as she paints to create movement with her paints. She is also the mother of 10 kids, 9 who have been adopted internationally. This passion of loving the forgotten shows up in the topics of her paintings. She feels her paintings are very spiritual in nature and wants to cause awareness to the pain others suffer but at the same time speak of the hope that is available to them.