Michelle Collins is an artist who hails from Sheffield. She’s a digital artist, designer and illustrator everyone needs to know about. She creates beautiful, digital artworks and has always wanted to be an artist. Her love for painting progressed rapidly when she was studying at Art College. She was inspired by an extremely compassionate and encouraging team of tutors, who introduced her to the works of artists such as Maggi Hambling and Jenny Saville. The depth of color in Rothko Mark’s paintings is also a constant source of inspiration to her. Her previous experience as a graphic designer gave her a real love for the nominal aesthetic, which influences her work as an artist today. She’s currently working on a one of a kind limited edition range in which she merges steel frames with abstract works of art to create one piece.
She wanted to look at different ways of displaying and taking art, experimenting with new techniques and materials. Because she’s able to work with manufacturers in Sheffield, the steel production industry in the city is very exciting to her. Combining a lifelong love of art with skill she had learned as a Graphic Designer lead to her innate evolution to paint digitally. She explores big, loose brush strokes alongside texture and intricate detail to create exciting digital works. Her technique is a real mix of new and old. She loves to look for unusual and likes upcycle. She loves quirky objects in second-hand and vintage stores. It has to be either dark walls, or white walls, nothing in between.
