Born in Surrey, England, Brian Melton studied graphics and fine art at Epsom College of Art and Design. Following training at The London School of Printing, he further gained valuable experience being trained as a Tactical Sketcher with H.M. Forces, creating campaign maps with military symbols to aid strategic manoeuvres.

Brian worked for a number of graphic design groups and advertising agencies before establishing his own graphic design and illustration consultancy in London's West End. The consultancy, namely 'Melton+' became well known in winning awards in the world of creative graphics, promotional advertising, publishing and creative illustration having achieved an envious list of national and international clientele.

More recently, Brian has researched an ancient art form using pigmented beeswax and by wielding many different types of heated implements to render an impasto painting technique he has been able to develop it as a medium for creative landscape painting. Brian has enjoyed a series of successful one-man exhibitions in London and its suburbs, he also exhibits his fine art encaustic beeswax paintings throughout the British Isles. In 1998 Brian became a member of The Guild of Master Craftsmen having been proposed and elected. Encouraged by sales success and his love of the British Wilderness, Brian opened his own Art Galleries in The English Lake District and built his bespoke art gallery by the shoreline in the wilds of the Isle of Harris in The Outer Hebrides and he has enjoyed being a member on the Hebridean Arts Trail.