Inspiration comes from life that abounds, farm animals, the faces of those I love, and the rolling hills and meandering streams of these valleys. Painting from the hilltops looking out, or in the rivers looking down, through wind and thunderstorms as well as under crisp blue skies, I have returned to the same places day after day, trying to see what lies hidden. To paraphrase Eugene Delacroix: Success in the arts is not about abridging, but amplifying and by all possible means prolonging the sensation.

Micki graduated from Webster University with a BA in Studio Art and Masters of Teaching/Integrated Arts. For twenty years she taught painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, and graphic arts in Missouri public schools, both rural and city schools, elementary through secondary. Moving to Vermont in 1997 she worked as a farm hand, pre-school teacher, and community coordinator for the Full Moon Cafe. In 2001 she built a studio and began painting every day. She has exhibited widely throughout New England including a juried group exhibit and two solo exhibits at the Vermont Supreme Court and has had three paintings in AVA’s juried summer shows. Her paintings are found in collections nearby and in France, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, and Croatia. Recently, she has taken up bas-relief sculptures, mainly in an effort to clean up the studio but also as a way of honoring three family elders who have recently passed on. Bits of buttons, spools of thread and pieces of broken pottery are glued into the designs, all tiny mementos gathered up in the “distribution”.