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

“I construct each piece using a process I invented and have developed over the years. A surface layer of plaster is made rough and incised with scuffs and other random marks, as well as more deliberate lines. With repeated painting and overpainting, some marks, like life experiences, are erased/forgotten while others defy that process and can never be erased/forgotten. Like the annual whitewashing of the ancient walls of Greek island houses, these successive layers speak of the passing of time and the workings of memory/forgetting.” MG

Over the past three decades Michèle has had regular solo and group exhibitions. Several works have been selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the Discerning Eye, in the Mall Galleries. In 2015 she completed a commission of eleven large paintings for P&O’s flagship cruise ship Britannia. She was selected for the 2019 Florence Biennale and was chosen for an international group show in Venice in 2022 . In 2023 she was shortlisted for Wells Art Contemporary. 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)