“We work with some of the finest contemporary artists, who help shape our cultural DNA and encourage a creative spirit in our hotels.” ME Meliá

The art of British artist Caryl Swale hangs at ME Meliá Hotel at Mercury Tower by Zaha Hadid Architects, “an exquisitely designed hotel that blends creativity with sophistication.”

A mid-career artist with a background in art for commercial spaces, Swale’s portfolio of figurative and abstract work spans drawing and painting in oil, watercolour, acrylic and mixed media, portraiture, still-life and landscape, human, animal and plant-life.

Inspired by Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer, masters of light Sargent and Sorolla, pre-raphaelite John William Waterhouse, illustratorsKay NielsonKay Nielson and Stephanie Rew, Swale’s diverse influences manifest themselves in her love of delicate lighting, rich colour, pattern, metallics, graphic shapes and stylised human form.

Since graduating from Carmarthen School of Art, her artistic practice has run parallel to a portfolio career as an art teacher, signwriter, seamstress, mural painter and interior designer and decorator. Her work can be found in hotels, restaurants, retail outlets, banks, stately homes and other public spaces across the UK, France and Malta. She is currently illustrating a new book on creativity by an award-winning UK writer.

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