Michelle Anderson

Michelle is a figurative artist, born in Pembrokeshire and now living in Shropshire. She works initially from observation and uses this gathered information to further her ideas for her paintings. Working primarily in oil, she takes inspiration largely from her surroundings, the Shropshire landscape and the Northumberland coast, which she visits regularly. Her subjects are also drawn from her eclectic sketchbooks which are a prominent source of material in her process.

Her work has a sensitive and often understated quality, reflecting the subtle shifts of light and colour in the British landscape. Some paintings are a quick response, others crafted over time, adding and subtracting to the paint surface until the initial idea is somehow made real.

Her work has been exhibited widely over 25 years both in solo and mixed exhibitions and she has exhibited regularly with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters as well as showing with the New English Art Club, ING Discerning Eye and Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. In 2025 she was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.