Michelle Boyle is an established artist and occasional curator with a rural studio in Cavan Ireland and a developing base in India. She commits to deep observation and intuitive art making on the theme of identity and place in a practice described as “sensitive, powerful and poetic”. Her figurative and landscape paintings in oils and watercolours are in many notable public collections over her 20 year practice.

Her self directed art practice is lead by a curiosity for artistic processes and freedom of experimentation into the nature of art making and audience engagement. She combines artistic processes to include painting, video, installation and performance in the studio and at waterside locations in the landscape. Michelle contributes to international cross disciplinary collaborations at the intersection of art, humanities and environmental activism informed by her qualifications in Landscape Archaeology (MA) and Cultural Anthropology/ History (BA)

She is a year round outdoor swimmer in the lake beside her studio in Ireland and is currently researching a new body of work ‘Kala Pani – Blackwater’ using water as a metaphor to explore her birth / adoptive inheritance and ancestral cross cultural journeying between Ireland, the UK and India .