Born in Surrey, Brian Melton studied graphics and fine art at Epsom College of Art and Design. Following training at the London School of Printing, he gained valuable experience as a Tactical Sketcher with H.M. Forces.

Brian worked for a number of design groups and advertising, agencies before establishing his own graphic design and illustration consultancy in London's West End. The consultancy. Brian Melton, became well known winning awards in the world of Creative Graphice, Adverting, Publishing and Creatice Illusration, having an envious list of national and international clientele.

More recently, Brian has researched an ancient art form using pigmented beeswax and has been able to develop it as a medium for creative landscape painting. He has enjoyed a series of successful one-man shows in London and its suburbs, he also exhibits his fine art encaustic beeswax paintings throughout the British Isles. In 1998 Brian Melton 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 Melton 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 enjoyed being a member on the Hebridean Arts Trail.