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Mile High. Mike Wurman, artist<\/p><\/div>\n

By Gina Malone<\/p>\n

In 2011, Mike Wurman might have described himself as still contemplating the idea of being an artist\u2014having taken classes and working at a job that required artistic skill but didn\u2019t allow creativity. It took insight from a friend to make him\u2014and his wife Rhianna, also an artist\u2014consider life going forward. \u201cLife is too short to live and work in a windowless cubicle,\u201d Mike Schikora, the singer\/songwriter\/furniture maker and best friend said to them. \u201cYou gotta follow your dreams, pursue your passion.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Rebirth – Max Patch. Mike Wurman, artist<\/p><\/div>\n

Art had always been in the periphery of Mike Wurman\u2019s life\u2014something he loved doing but hadn\u2019t considered as a career. He grew up, moving around the country and overseas with his Army officer father, a mother who worked as a nurse and four siblings. In second grade, impressed by a classmate with artistic ability, Mike asked to take drawing lessons. The Clark Air Base recreation center was offering classes, and his mother signed him up. \u201cI still remember the day she dropped me off,\u201d he says, \u201cand with charcoal sticks and a drawing pad in hand, I marched into class, not realizing that this eight-year-old boy was about to begin his career as an artist.\u201d Assignments in the class consisted of copying increasingly more difficult drawings and eventually being introduced to watercolor. Mike still has the sketch pads from that first class.<\/p>\n

As he grew older, he had passing thoughts of working as an animator, but enrolled in a military college in Georgia. While a student, he was injured when his car was broadsided by another vehicle. \u201cThose who saw the car said I never should have lived, but live I did,\u201d he says. He endured a complete separation of his left shoulder, which involved surgery and months of recovery. During this time, bored, he picked up a pencil and began to draw. \u201cFor the first time, I wasn\u2019t just sketching but doing complete drawings,\u201d he says. \u201cAlso for the first time, I was being asked by others why I was going into the military when I should be pursuing a career as an illustrator.\u201d He graduated from college, and awaiting the Officer Basic Course in Oklahoma, moved in with his parents in Virginia\u2019s Chesapeake Bay area.<\/p>\n

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Final Curtain. Mike Wurman, artist<\/p><\/div>\n

He had had some success drawing commissioned works of homes and historic sites in Virginia by the time he reported to Fort Sill, and then Fort Bragg, and now art was calling to him. Federal budget cuts allowed him to resign his commission and be released from the Army, but he soon realized that, without art schooling, he couldn\u2019t find the illustrating job that he wanted. He became a production assistant at a label company, where he would meet his wife and where he was still working\u2014after a disappointing attempt to get into the field of animation with Disney\u2014when challenged by Schikora.<\/p>\n

That evening and the friends\u2019 words led them both to leave the label company and move to Asheville in 2013. Held back by self-doubt, Mike needed one more pivotal moment to move him forward in his art career. \u201cIn May of 2014, we took a hike across the summit of Max Patch,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen I knelt to take a photo of a weatherbeaten post with the white blaze upon it marking the iconic Appalachian Trail, I was immediately overcome with the desire to draw once again, but it took a couple of days to realize the trail itself was also calling me. Two months later, with no backpacking experience and carrying two sketchbooks and an assortment of pencils, I left Springer Mountain, GA, and headed north. My journey on the trail not only strengthened my belief in myself but it also gifted me with an undying love for nature that I was eager to share with others.\u201d His trail name on the AT was \u201cSketch.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Davidson River. Mike Wurman, artist<\/p><\/div>\n

He continued to work in pencils, then moved to graphite and, eventually, pastels. He now focuses primarily on landscapes, with many paintings of his beloved Max Patch. It was Mike who, during the pandemic, took the drone image of the summit crowded with campers and trash that went viral. \u201cBecause of that photo, the US Forest Service closed the summit to camping,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve returned to Max Patch many times since the closing, and each time I see a definite improvement as nature reclaims the many social trails and multiple firepits that were scattered about on its summit. The painting A Rebirth \u2013 Max Patch<\/em> was inspired by my visit to the summit on the one-year anniversary of the photo being taken.\u201d<\/p>\n

His work is exhibited at Number 7 Arts, in Brevard, where fellow member artist Laurie Davis admires his paintings showcasing the AT. \u201cMike works plein air using his pastels to capture the magnificent AT,\u201d she says. \u201cHis skies are stellar and so realistic you could walk right into his paintings.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Evening Appeal. Mike Wurman, artist<\/p><\/div>\n

The trail holds a special place in his heart. \u201cMy career as an artist began the day I picked up a No. 2 pencil after the car accident,\u201d Mike says. \u201cBut the real journey began the moment I set foot on the AT. I needed to step outside to discover what was within. Through my hike, I learned that art is not just a product of creativity: it is an expression of experiences. When I paint, I\u2019m not merely capturing the beauty of what I see: I\u2019m also capturing the emotions behind the subject. To the viewer, this invokes a personal connection, so I encourage them to find their paths of inspiration to follow and embark on their own self-fulfilling journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learn more at MikeWurmanFineArt.com<\/a>, and follow on Facebook<\/a> (Mike Wurman) and Instagram<\/a> (asketchandaprayer). Find Wurman\u2019s work at Number 7 Arts, 2 West Main Street, Brevard.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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