Michael Raleigh

I tell ghost stories in acrylic, oil and mixed media. My approach blends figurative and abstract elements to create an ongoing internal narrative.
I see the world as a living internal landscape. When I look closely across my landscape, I see the images of mask wearers and ghosts and lost children trying to find their way home. On the roads of my interior landscape, we are all partial, we are all broken, we are all seeking our place in a puzzle we don't quite understand.
I work intuitively and spontaneously, embracing the "art of fouls" to bring the contradictions of anger, sadness and a fiercely protected shred of hope to my work. I rarely know where a piece is going, but I know when we get there. I create my work as a matter of life and death.
To date, I have completed over 600 acrylic, oil, and mixed media pieces.
I have my doubts about heaven, but I still believe in ghosts.

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