Michelle Meadow

Creating art where the natural world is transformed through mind, heart, and hands

Meet Michelle

Michelle is an artist based in the hills of Kentucky. She specializes in transforming her macro photography into encaustic carvings and sculpture. Working within this drive for change, she helps others find growth and release through expressive healing arts.

Photo Credit: Karl Lindstrom

“This connection between art and nature has been an integral part of my life and continues to inspire me and make me grateful to be alive.”

-Michelle Meadow

Encaustic Portfolio

Including original encaustic carvings and sculptures

  • Encaustic Originals

    Shop original encaustic carvings and sculptures

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  • Greeting Cards and Prints

    Shop greeting card and giclee prints featuring encaustic artwork

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Wholesale

Interested in carrying my greeting cards and prints in your store? Head over to my wholesale page to learn more!

Expressive Healing Arts

My career as a social worker gave me the privilege of witnessing the cathartic power of art, affirming how I continue to experience this as an empowering force in my own life and art practice.  I believe that creativity reconnects us to our true selves, which in turn, enables us to connect with others, art being the bridge for kinship and shared understanding of the human condition.  As I continue my artistic growth, I remain committed to helping others access their inherent creativity and wisdom as they unfold on their paths.  It is a profound journey, and I am honored to share it with you through my expressive arts practice.

Blog

In this space, I share the backstory of my nature-inspired artwork, delving into both the outward process of creating and the inner journey that is integral to my mission of creating art that connects us.

  • Michelle has created a lush, glistening world made up of extraordinary flora and fauna. Upon entering Michelle's world, it feels like Alice In Wonderland experiencing ayahuasca– definitely a transformative experience! Colors pop and flash while shapes expand and morph. This secret world is so organic and primal; it's like witnessing creation, allowing the viewer to have an insider's view of that magnificent event. But isn't that what the creative process is all about...transformation and metamorphosis? And aren't we lucky to have Michelle share it with us?

    -Geoffrey Gorman, artist, Santa Fe, NM

  • The luna moth sculpture arrived and feels like your Masterpiece!! Her phenomenal wings will lead my clients upstairs to my healing space. The earthy colors, the depth of your carving, and her simple expansiveness just speak so much to the passion in me, and in my life’s work! And I LOVE that those two pieces are “cut of the same cloth,” so I can touch and hold the small one as your hands did.

    -Suzanne, Collector

  • “A keen observer of how nature transforms itself around her, Michelle documents her captivating discoveries through macro-photography. Her attentiveness as she walks through Kentucky fields and woods acts as her concerted effort to slow down, acknowledge, and capture “fleeting moments of time”. The original image is transformed into intriguing sculptural forms that can be simultaneously so very familiar yet unidentifiable - like the memory of a dream..."

    -Catherine Nash, M.F.A., Visual Artist, Author

  • “...In Michelle's artwork, Nature becomes a metaphor for emotional states, phases of personal growth, and life. She is relentless in her quest to comprehend the state of being in relation to her community, her family, and her own body and self, all ultimately in relation to the earth, water, and sky. Interconnectedness. In Michelle’s unique and creative interpretations, all become intimate visual poetry that express not only a wonder of the natural world, but also the metamorphosis of a human spirit.”

    -Catherine Nash, M.F.A., Visual Artist, Author