Michael’s process is as layered as the artworks themselves. While guided by instinct, he is endlessly experimental with materials, pouring resin, working with encaustic wax, acrylics, graphite, and charcoal, or reaching for spray paint, coloured pencils, and oils. Each piece becomes a field for exploration, where textures collide and unexpected marks emerge.

Part of what makes his work so distinctive is his use of found objects. Michael scours antique markets, op shops, and travels abroad to gather fabrics, stamps, postcards, and papers that once had another life. Japanese papers, Balinese fabrics, and fragments of letters or collaged textures are woven into the surface, carrying their own histories while becoming part of something new.

This openness to both material and memory gives his practice a raw authenticity. Every layer has its own story, and together they create artworks that feel alive, contemporary, and deeply human.