Michele’s work is a mix of various mediums and techniques, giving her the ultimate flexibility to make art. She is excited by the unpredictability of watercolours, the buttery rich colour of oils and the simplicity of pen and ink. Her art is loose and suggestive with energetic brush strokes and pen marks. Michele is inspired by the old master’s impressionism and expressionism and how they captured the light. This feeds into her weekly plein air painting adventures and local caricature drawing with a contemporary flavour.

Michele paints on the streets known as plein air, and sketches live caricature portraits. Painting from life is alive, the light, sounds, the smell, and flavour in the air through to the many conversations with the people she meets. It’s all channelled into the art and is the ultimate inspiration for her to be expressive. Each artwork is therefore an exploration of raw emotions, beauty and relationships created for the intended viewer to engage with and to find their own interpretation and story within.

Michele is fortunate to share her studio and knowledge with students running MiChalk afterschool art classes and holiday workshops for children.