Michelle MRandle

MRandle (Michelle Randle) paints intuitive, expressive portraits in oil and acrylic with a capricious flair. Utilizing a wide variety of pigments, ranging from coral, salmon, rust and fuchsia to various shades of blue, indigo, lilac and navy, MRandle thickly applies the paint to the canvas producing an effect of optimum texture and sheen. Leaving all semblance of the real behind, MRandle’s paintings are perilously loose, sensuous and evocative. Occasionally one sees subtle references to traditional landscape painting and the natural environment of her Canadian homeland. Whether using long sweeping gestures or light repetitive flourishes, MRandle’s work possesses the spontaneous quotient of music or dance. Dark and somber landscapes, sumptuous, gleaming folds of color and rotund, swelling blossoms bear metaphysical import when translated into MRandle’s moving visual language, something the viewer will instantly desire to fully apprehend.

Born in 1982, in British Columbia, MRandle studied Fine Arts at Vancouver Island University. She currently lives and works in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island.