Michael Welch

ARTIST STATEMENT

I paint what I like to see and what I want to hang on my walls. I paint worlds and scenes I want to escape into. I paint the term ‘what if.’ I am not a camera. I interpret. 

When I start painting a canvas, I have no idea what will commence. I just start. I used to sketch them out. But it felt too constricting. I longed to paint freely. And that’s what I do. As a middle child, I want your attention. And that’s what I do. Boldly and freely. 



I love mixed media, but paint mostly in acrylic, the most liberating of all mediums. 

Additionally, I consider myself a predicament painter. I love to take bold risks on the canvas where the only way out is to paint my way out of it and bring it to a successful conclusion. I learn more from this process than any other method. There are those times where it all goes smoothly, and art just spills out of me onto the canvas. Other times I work overtime making mistake after mistake to the point where I work through it to when I’m finally ready to sign the work realize they are not mistakes after all, but risks. And each risk is a gift I accept humbly. 

BIO

Michael (AKA Mykl)  is a multiple award-winning artist who moved to Omaha from San Jose, California. Raised in Iowa, he studied art at University of Iowa, Oregon College of Art, Monterey Peninsula College and internationally with acclaimed artist, Michael Azgour.



With over three decades of professional experience in artistic expression, Michael signs his work with a phonetic spelling of his first name as Mykl. His work is featured in many private collections and accepted into many international shows as well as The Triton Art Museum in Santa Clara, CA. and the NUMU Museum in Los Gatos, CA.