Michele grew up in a household that encouraged drawing and creativity and her career has also mostly followed a creative path. Michele has previously worked as a decorator for an antiques company, a property developer and also as a garden designer and gardener.
It was a sad course of events though that triggered her desire to follow her real passion for art and painting when a family member and also a close friend both of a similar age, sadly died of cancer. It galvanised Michele into action feeling like 'life would not wait' and she was lucky enough to be able to enrol as a 'mature student' on a fine art degree validated by Bath University from which she graduated in 2009 with a BA(Hons). This was a mixed experience as much of the focus was placed on purely 'conceptual' art, but it gave her an opening into a new world. She particularly enjoyed the drawing classes, print-making studio and the visits to galleries at home and abroad and consequently her passion for painting and making art was well and truly set .
Her artistic influences are too numerous to list, but she is particularly drawn to innovative use of colour and paint, and includes Kurt Jackson, John Piper, Anne and John Blockley, the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and some of the contemporary Scottish artists.
Michele has an adult teaching qualification and has been teaching drawing and painting classes to adults since 2009. She holds classes currently at a couple of local village halls (please see Art Classes page for details). She is happy to consider teaching various workshops, please contact her from the 'Contacts' page here if you are interested in attending.