MICHAEL MINOR
Michael Minor is an international artist born in Canada.
Mike studied one year in London at the Heatherly School of Fine Art and is currently enrolled in the Florence Academy of Art in the Master of Studio Art program. He is a contemporary representational painter, principally in oils.
PAINTER'S STATEMENT
I live life through my painter’s eyes. Painting is omnipresent in my thoughts and actions, one life not enough to capture what inspires me. As a former soldier, I have witnessed the best and worst of humanity, and I am enthralled by the human animal, its stubbornly consistent spirit, timelessly emotional conditions, and boundless environments.
My paintings build humbly on works of traditional painters laid down through millennium. I want to tell timeless stories with my pictures and leave them to the collective whole of works done before me. I am classically trained, painting in a contemporary representational style. I am inspired by the traditional, technical skills and compositions of masters and great representational painters working today.
A moto —"every day, in the paint.” Inspired by this, I deepen my knowledge and perfect my skills daily. Ultimately, I seek to not simply make pictures but to paint masterpieces recognizing that if I render but one, I will have succeeded as a painter.