Delta van Melle | Contemporary Visual Artist and bio art designer

Delta van Melle is an autodidactic visual artist whose work operates between the realms of fragility and play. Based between Amsterdam and Antwerp, the artist’s practice is characterized by the use of repurposed and found materials, including lost children's drawings, glass, wall paint, and the living waste cultures of kombucha (scoby). These materials serve as a medium for Delta van Melle to investigate how memories, relationships, and vulnerable feelings can be preserved and reimagined in a physical form. The creative process is deeply intuitive and physical, focusing on the experimentation of textures to create a dialogue between control and chaos, seriousness and childlike wonder. Rooted in a neurodiverse perspective, the work of Delta van Melle reflects on family, queerness, and connection as shifting spaces rather than fixed structures. Notable projects include 'Le Petit Prinxe,' which serves as a visual ode to the unfiltered simplicity of childhood. This project utilizes reverse glass painting—a technique where marks are made blindly on the back of the surface—to create works that emerge as surprises. These pieces are intended as preservations of fragile feelings encased behind glass, acting as a guard for vanishing states of being. By embracing imperfections and coincidences, the practice becomes an act of remembrance and resistance, prioritizing mental health and slowing down as a statement against societal norms. The art captures raw truths through a blend of cemented imagery and critical drawings.