198x122cm

Michele Waldron-Cooper is a fine artist based in Hampshire, in the Southwest of the United Kingdom. Currently she is developing her painting technique by disturbing reality, but at the same time hanging onto strands of this reality. Both of these elements are allowing her to let go and to paint with sensation and to cause the viewer to feel sensation, teasing the subject matter to morph into paintings that are more from her imagination. The intention being the viewer is thrown into a world that is both realistic and fantastical, dark, and sometimes humerous.

Michele also creates portraits of people that have a quirky aesthetic, capturing a true reflection of a persons’ character through oil paint and branching out to more gritty portraits that another may find slightly disturbing. Both emotion and form raise elements of tension finding beauty in the abnormal where the possibilities become endless.

Darkness can sometimes create a blanket of primal emotions, a stifled scream, a gritting of your teeth or the feeling of suffocation and never being heard. The art Michele creates on one hand portrays this, but on the other hand her art defies this darkness to convey a confidence and light to present a kind of antithetical approach.

Some of the pieces Michele chooses to make, are a response to helping her to forget that darkness and just make something bloody pretty to look at like 'Can't Stop, Won't Stop'. Life is too short for her and she has so many medias to develop, entwine and literally bulldoze through with her energy.