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About The Artist
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Melanie Tilghman, owner of Tilghman Traditions, comes from a family of creative people. She studied art and its varied applications throughout her education, and studied tole painting in Banks, Oregon in 1995-1996. She has always painted and done her own creations part-time while working full-time in the accounting, finance and commercial property management areas until 2003, after a mandatory surgery in 2002 left her with permanent nerve damage and severe post-surgical handicaps. Since then, she has concentrated full-time (when physically able) on her family’s own artisan and natural home spa products business, “Tilghman Traditions”.
Her painted animal rocks, or “Nature’s Treasures™”, are only one portion of the family business. Each piece is completed individually, and no two stones are ever the same. Every creation is painted in acrylic paints, signed, dated, then sealed with two coats of a specially formulated, UV-resistant, protective sealant (similar to the sealant on your car).
Along with painting “Nature’s Treasures™”, Mrs. Tilghman also designs and creates a line of “Garden China™” which includes stepping stones, sundials, butterfly bowls, tole-painted tinware and more. She also paints murals, borders and holiday window scenes along with specialty pieces when contracted in homes, businesses and schools. She also assists her family in making a full line of natural home spa bath products including designer and hand-painted soaps, bath salts, bath truffles, herbal bath teas, facial scrubs, sugar scrubs, salt scrubs, body polishers, skin fresheners, skin vinegars, bath oils, massage oils, clay masques, gift boxes and more, in addition to assisting in the design, creation and fabrication of the family's artisan mineral jewelry. Tilghman Traditions also sells mineral specimens from around the globe. Tilghman Traditions prides itself in offering people natural items pampering mind, body and spirit.
Mrs. Tilghman resides in Dutchess County, N.Y. with her husband and two children, but her work has stretched throughout the United States and continues to appeal to animal lovers, art lovers and life enthusiasts of all ages. |
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