Known for his figurative work and interior subjects, Michael’s art has been collected throughout North America and featured in numerous magazines and articles. He also has extensive experience fulfilling portrait commissions.

For the past 15 years, Michael has focused on teaching, driven by a passion for educating others on the visual arts. He frequently conducts demonstrations to explain the techniques and processes used by historical masters. Alongside his teaching, Michael primarily works from life, studying light in the tradition of Impressionist nature studies.

Artist Statement:

For many artists, ideas come first; for me, painting begins with the experience of seeing.

Much like music is built from the relationships between notes, painting follows a similar harmony. In nature, light and color are one and the same, and the world reveals itself through shifting arrangements of these color notes.

The painter Henry Hensche referred to this as the “visual poetry of nature.” That phrase captures exactly what I seek: a simple, beautiful language expressed through a visual medium.

I do not think of myself as an artist, but rather as a student of nature. I strive to study as objectively as I can through paint, aiming to share a small part of the beauty I find there.