I love the visual beauty & colors of the west.  I am a Contemporary Colorist & Expressionist. As a Plein Air Oil Painter, I am able to inhale the outdoors & translate that with impasto oils using palette knives and large brushes.  I am most excited by the abstract forms that nature provides.  I also love to paint the abstracted figure from life.  Gallery Representation: The Signature Galleries, Santa Fe & Scottsdale, AZ; Wilder Nightingale Gallery, Taos, NM; Abiquiu Inn, Abiquiu, NM; Weems Gallery & Romero Street Gallery in Albuquerque, NM.  Signature Member of Plein Air Painters of New Mexico.  Painting Instructor: Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu; New Mexico Art League in Albuquerque, NM.  Publications: SW Art Magazine; Plein Air Magazine; Phoenix Home & Lifestyle & Cowboys & Indians Magazines.  Exhibitions: Cowgirl Up! at Desert Caballeros Museum, Wickenburg, AZ; & Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM.

Email: michellechrisman78@gmail.com

Website: michellechrisman.com