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Michelle is a mixed media painter and sculptor.

Growing up in the UK, art has been a consistent and persistent practice in her life. Her practice fledged while living in North Carolina, USA where she immersed herself in visionary folk art, primitive and outsider art.

Her creative process comes from a place of ‘comfortable chaos’ and provides an escape like flow as she immerses herself in her work that delivers a profound satisfaction on completion.

In her St Peters studio Michelle develops multiple works simultaneously in a prolific and generous manner that creates order from chaos through intuitive experimentation. As each mark or material is responded to and each work develops it triggers the next to sustain Michelle’s internal dialogue with her work.

Michelle’s assembled sculptural works are often held together with wire that at once binds together and creates their visceral tenderness and vulnerability which is also evident in her two-dimensional works where spontaneous authentic mark making creates characters of human and animal fragility.