"I was born in Kenya during an African uprising and often felt as if it never stopped. As a psychic and a sensitive, life was a series of uprisings until I discovered the healing power of colour.

I spent my life trying to work out what it was I was meant to be doing and went from studying psychology to art, frustrating myself around every corner until the colours burst into my reality.

Sadly it took me to the age of 42 before I knew what I was going to do when I grew up. But at that point everything suddenly made sense and all my studies could be utilised under the umbrella of colour. Now living at the southern most part of Africa, my life is peaceful, joyous and abundant and very very colourful.

I live in Stanford, near Hermanus, where the Southern Right whales come to birth their babies every September and I look at the mountains, which being a colour therapist, I turn pink every evening at sunset and I make the colours you see in the Colour Mirrors bottles. I energise them with African sunshine and love to mirror the magnificence of you."

Melissie is supported by Moira Bush and Korani based in England; and Teresa Marshall and Anna Tobias in Stanford. The full story of Melissie's journey with colour in Africa can be read in the Colour Works book written by Phillippa Merivale.