Meet Michelle

I’ve been making art my entire life – my mother was an artist, and creativity was simply part of our household. I started with watercolor, acrylic, and pen and ink. Add to that, I’ve always been a picker, a junker, a lover of old and interesting objects. About fifteen years ago, those two parts of my life collided. I started building art from found materials, and I haven’t looked back.

Today I create freestanding sculpture and dimensional wall works that layer found objects with paint, clay, and textured surfaces. Each piece begins with something that carries its own memory – worn, handled, left behind and is rebuilt into something that holds both that history and new meaning. I call it Stories in Three Dimensions.

Every piece, regardless of which world it comes from, begins with a story, and ends with something you weren’t quite expecting.