Michelle Waters

Michelle Waters’ art expresses concerns for the loss of the natural world and human exploitation of animals. She also does companion animal portraits and her current work is focused on the 6th great extinction. Her art has been influenced by her environmental and animal activism and volunteer work in wildlife rehabilitation and cat rescue.

She has exhibited widely in the U.S., including in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Seattle, Portland, and New York. Her art is in private collections throughout the U.S., and in several other countries, as well as the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, CA. Michelle has been a resident artist at Kaleid Gallery in San Jose since its opening in 2007, and also regularly shows art at Cactus Gallery in Los Angeles and Studio Gallery in San Francisco. She lives in the redwood forest of the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California with her husband and rescued cats, and their neighbors the deer, owls, coyotes, bobcats, squirrels, woodpeckers, hawks, jays, lizards, frogs, opossums, skunks, raccoons, foxes and mountain lions.

Available for commissions.

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