Alpine Echo Gallery

Melanie MacVoy

Fernie, British Columbia

Melanie was born and raised in Southern Ontario.  Her creativity and love for the outdoors was nurtured from a young age. Melanie’s grandmother was a prolific muralist, painting scenes on the doors, walls and entire rooms of her home. Annual camping trips to Algonquin Provincial Park cultivated MacVoy’s appreciation for the Canadian landscape and intrigue with artist Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven.

Melanie studied Fine Arts and Arts Administration at the University of Waterloo with renowned Canadian artist, Tony Urquardt being her most influential professor. During a summer co-op placement, Melanie relocated to Vancouver where she completed her Fine Arts degree through UBC and Emily Carr University.

While exploring the Coast Mountains and rainforests on Vancouver Island, Melanie fell in love with the outdoors lifestyle that BC has to offer. Her connection to the cedar tree was fostered as a conservationist while trail building in pristine wilderness areas threatened by logging.

Seduced by “legendary” powder skiing, Melanie joined the small mountain community of Fernie, BC in 2000. Like most travellers, she “came for the winter but stayed for the summer” with the additional discovery of exceptional mountain biking trails and fly fishing rivers.

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