Michelle Boyle is an established artist in oil and watercolour painting and an occasional curator with a rural studio base in Cavan Ireland and a developing base in Mumbai India. Identity and lived experience are central to the artist’s practice. She commits to deep observation of people and place expressed in painting, drawing and new experimentation in video, installation and paper casting.

Her work connects into a universal narrative of home as a physical and internalised place of belonging . Michelle was born in London and adopted as a child to Dublin, growing up in the suburb of Ballymun with her 3 adopted sisters. Her solo shows in Ireland and India explore her personal story of childhood and motherhood which resonate to broader narratives. Her paintings are described as “sensitive, powerful and poetic” and are held in major public collections.

Michelle is developing a new body of work ‘Kala Pani – Blackwater’ using water as a holding metaphor to explore ancestral history and journeying between Ireland , India and the UK.

She swims year round in Lough Ramor where she has her home and studio base in Ireland. In this immersion and through conversations with others, she became conscious of the poor health of the water due to human actions. In her own words she became an ‘accidental water environmentalist’ collaborating across science , art and local community to bring visibility to water and our shared responsibility to it.

Academic Qualifications :

MA Landscape Archaeology / Architecture BA Cultural Anthropology/ History

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