Michelle Ball, The Gang Gang on the River Vessel, 92x92cm oil on hot pressed cotton rag paper.
Michelle Ball - Flora 24
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Michelle Ball is an Australian contemporary artist known for her paintings based on themes of history and care for the Australian bush.
Ball studied art and film making before beginning her career as a creative director in publishing, but has always painted.
“I see that we are all small parts of a whole. We adapt and are forever evolving, I cannot help but be influenced by situations, people and places around me and this observation makes for an ongoing story,” she says.
At a young age Ball was influenced by her great aunt, painter Edith Priscilla King, whose subjects were landscapes and still life. When Ball lived and worked in New York she studied watercolour with Robert Schefman, took classes at the Art Students League and was influenced by the vibrant art scene of the 1980s.
“Moving from New York back to Australia, I now live as I grew up, on the edge of a National Park. As a remote location, it is this natural environment that fills me with inspiration which I continue to learn about every day.
Walking the local tracks and being part of the community bush care group I’m in constant awe of our Australian bush and its fragility. The unique vision of our wildflowers and endangered birds are globally understated or recognised and it is something that drives me paint and share. It is that possibility of a new story that moves me.
I see that we are all small parts of a whole. We adapt and are forever evolving, I cannot help but be influenced by situations, people and places around me and this observation makes for an ongoing story.”
Michelle Ball, The Corner Store Gallery.
Michelle Ball, The Corner Store Gallery.
Michelle Ball, The Corner Store Gallery.
Michelle Ball, The Corner Store Gallery.
Michelle Ball, The Corner Store Gallery.