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SOLD -Colors of Winter
12" x 16" - $750 |
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Mauve Shadows Above the Rio Grande
18" x 24" - $1000 |
Mesa Symphony #1
8" x 16" - $525 |
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Old House of Valdez de San Antonio
11" x 14" - $675 |
Pink Bikini
12" x 7" - $500 |
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Sopyn's Vineyard
18" x 24" - $1000 |
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Summer's Meadow Song
30" x 40" - $3000 |
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Sunflower Heaven
30" x 36" - $2975 |
 Winter’s Park Sunset on Taos
20" x 20" - $950
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 Canyon del Muerto Shadow Veil
36" x 36" - $4000
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 Red River Canyon in Winter
22" x 30" - $1850
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 Summer Song
30" x 40" - $3000
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 Santa Cruz Chapel in Spring
20" x 24" - $1200
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After growing up in Colorado, Michelle moved to New York
City and graduated from both The School of Visual Arts & the
Fashion Institute of Technology. While working as an art
director in advertising for Macys in New York, she studied
drawing & painting at the New York Art Students League.
After moving to New Mexico, Michelle studied outdoor
landscape painting with Ray Vanella & Kevin McPherson in
Taos and has been a plein air painter for 15 years. During
this time she also studied advanced painting at the Denver
Art Students League with Quang Ho, Kim English and Mark
Daly.
Michelle was featured in the October, 2005 collector’s issue
of Southwest Art Magazine under the “Artists to Watch”. She
was also featured in the April, 2006 issue of Cowboys &
Indians Magazine, as well as Focus Santa Fe.
Michelle is a founder of the annual fundraiser for the New
Mexico Wilderness Alliance exhibit, “Wildlands Art”, which
focus on raising public awareness & funds to save endangered
New Mexico Wilderness areas.
“I love the visual beauty of New Mexico and the West, the
desert and the richness and variety of the three cultures. I
consider myself a contemporary colorist and a New Mexico
Modernist, but most of all, a visual poet. I am drawn to
paint endangered places such as wilderness, historic
buildings and fading cultural traditions including Native
Americans, Flamenco Dancers and the colorful people of the
west, in the hope of drawing public awareness to help
preserve their beauty and culture, by capturing them on
canvas. My favorite subject has become endangered New Mexico
wilderness areas because they are hauntingly beautiful and
our natural treasure. I also love to paint the figure from
life.”
