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Catch Me If You Can. MIchelle Hamilton, artist<\/p><\/div>\n

By Gina Malone<\/p>\n

A well-lighted, clean space, a span of time, and a blank canvas are the elements Michelle Hamilton needs and is inspired by when she creates. After those basics are in place, she says, she sits exploring the many ideas in her head and asking herself, \u201cWhat medium will I choose today? Encaustic? Acrylic? Resin?\u201d<\/p>\n

A self-taught artist, Hamilton lives on top of a mountain where she is often visited by bears, turkeys and birds. \u201cMy connection to nature is animals\u2014all animals,\u201d she says. \u201cI could paint them all day. Realistic is great, but lately I\u2019ve been twisting it up some and making them more like characters in my mind.\u201d Her favorite animal is not native to North America, but that doesn\u2019t stop her from wishing she could look out into her backyard and see a giraffe.<\/p>\n

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Dapper Donkey. Michelle Hamilton, artist<\/p><\/div>\n

She explored many mediums before finding encaustics to be the most inspiring. \u201cThe versatile nature of encaustics allowed me to delve into mixed media and texture,\u201d she says, \u201cwhich opened my mind and made me feel even more passionate about my work.\u201d Inspiration is found everywhere\u2014from Japanese fashion to Tim Burton\u2019s movies\u2014but nature serves as a longstanding and steadfast muse for her.<\/p>\n

It was the beauty of the Appalachian Mountains that drew her to Western North Carolina nearly 20 years ago. \u201cMy husband, a motorcycle enthusiast, and I would visit from Florida to go to these sidecar motorcycle rallies,\u201d she says. \u201cThe beauty of the mountains and the people really drew us in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elements of folk art, \u201cfrom the primitive to the most refined,\u201d she says, abound in her work. \u201cColors,\u201d she adds. \u201cI love colors\u2014bright, fun ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

She comes from a family steeped in artistic and crafting traditions, with a grandmother who was a painter and a mother who crafted in various mediums. As a child, Hamilton liked to draw and would lose herself for hours with a sketchbook. \u201cIt really wasn\u2019t until I was in my early twenties and out of college that I started to pick up paint,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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Blue Barn. Michelle Hamilton, artist<\/p><\/div>\n

Through the years, she has traveled to other countries, opening herself up to the different cultures, art and people she encountered along the way. That exploration, she says, has taught her more than anything else. And the support of her family, especially her husband and her mother, has been invaluable. \u201cI\u2019ve done some pieces I won\u2019t sell\u2014or my family won\u2019t let me sell,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

She tries not to limit herself to a particular theme, wanting instead, she says, to be \u201cmutable in my creativity, always growing and changing along with my work and my proficiency with the materials.\u201d Kristen Edge, owner of ArtPlay which represents Hamilton\u2019s work and where she is also a teaching artist, says that she enjoys watching Hamilton approach a canvas and admit to having no idea what she is about to create. \u201cBut the interesting thing is that it never feels unsettling to her that she doesn\u2019t know where a piece of work is going,\u201d Edge says. \u201cShe gets started, she experiments with what\u2019s in front of her and somewhere along the way something strikes her. All of a sudden, there is a fascinating character starting to take shape, like Ms. Flossie or Dapper Donkey, and the piece just flows out of her from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bird. Michelle Hamilton, artist<\/p><\/div>\n

Hamilton does not rush her creative process. \u201cI need days at a time from setting up to completion,\u201d she says. \u201cMaybe weeks if it\u2019s a bigger piece. I find during these times when life\u2019s chores and obligations get in my way, I start to get prickly. But when all is good, I can free my mind, even open it to a higher power, I\u2019m the happiest ever. I believe art is my form of meditation.\u201d<\/p>\n

At ArtPlay, Hamilton has led classes on everything from mixed media collage to folk art with acrylics and resin. \u201cShe always shares new techniques with our students, but really the magic is her playful and spontaneous approach to art-making,\u201d says Edge. \u201cI have had more than a few students tell me that Michelle\u2019s classes were responsible for helping them to let go of judging their work so that they could simply dive in, play and trust their own creative process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michelle Hamilton\u2019s work is available at ArtPlay, 372 Depot Street, Suite 44, in Asheville\u2019s River Arts District. Gallery hours are Monday, and Thursday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday 12\u20135 p.m. Learn more about the gallery and upcoming classes at ArtPlay-Studio.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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