Michelle Paskin

Michelle attended art college in the UK straight out of school and focused on print making and photography. Her career started in a photographic printing lab, from there she became the in-house retouch artist, restoring old photographs” the old-fashioned way” before Photoshop and then progressed to the digital world. Michelle and her family emigrated to Canada over 20 years ago, where she eventually started her own sign company which she has been running for the past 15 years. Michelle paint’s part time from her home studio in Hamilton, Ontario. Half of Michelle’s childhood was spent in the hills and valleys of Shropshire in England, of which she has many fond memories of this beautiful landscape. Recently she moved to the countryside into an old century Ontario farmhouse, which she had been longing to do for many years. Somehow, being surrounded by nature, farmers’ fields and a beautiful old house inspired her to come back to her art. She focuses on her surroundings, rural landscapes, nature, local towns and home. Michelle primarily uses soft pastels. Michelle is now driven and focused on her art journey to finally “finding her voice”.