Michael has that elusive quality that artist’s strive for.  He can change and respond to a painting in the middle of the process while constantly challenging the work by inserting something unexpected and improbable.  It is in resolving these disparate elements over and over again that he has honed his craft and found his own very clear voice.  His work is consistent and finely realized and yet he is full of surprises, incorporating the unexpected at every turn and finding a way to make it work.