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My paintings are abstract but also in a way ‘representational’ as they are distressed to make them to look like time-worn walls. They often also bear graffiti like the medieval pilgrim marks and crusader crosses I have copied from the walls of Chichester Cathedral. With repeated painting and overpainting, I engage in a dialogue with the messy raw material of the textured and scuffed plaster, aiming to create from it all a composition that works aesthetically, embodying balance and harmony. This is a metaphorical way of lending meaning to the random mental and physical scars we all experience in life, to a greater or lesser degree. Some marks, like experiences, are erased or forgotten, others defy that process and can never be erased or forgotten.

“I aim to engage the viewer in a process of slow looking” 

Michele has exhibited widely in regular group exhibitions, solo shows and Art Fairs. Several works have been selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the Discerning Eye, in the Mall Galleries, central London, and in 2023 she was shortlisted for Wells Art Contemporary. In 2015 she completed a commission of eleven large paintings for P&O’s flagship Britannia. She was selected for the 2019 Florence Biennale and was chosen for an international group show in Venice in 2022 . She has been shown annually at London Affordable Art Fairs with Nicholas Bowlby Fine Art (since 2008) In 2021 she had a major solo exhibition in Chichester Cathedral: “Darkness into Light”. Frances Spalding and Rowan Williams have written pieces about this.  (See Reviews page)