Bio

Leavenworth WA-based artist Michelle Anderst creates detailed oil paintings which serve as an emissary for the natural world and are inspired by her hiking and backpacking adventures in untouched wilderness and balanced ecosystems. Her lush depictions of fungi, plants, insects, moths and microscopic organisms illuminate the intricate beauty of a world often overlooked. These curious-looking organisms intersect with archetypal geometry and esoteric magic systems to describe the illusory divine formula of underlying evolutionary growth patterns. Each painting is created with intention and spell work in servitude to the natural world. 

Anderst exhibits internationally in several galleries and has been a featured artist and live painter at numerous art and music festivals including Cascadia, Sonic Bloom, Imagine , Lucidity and Lighting in A Bottle. Most recently she was invited to speak at Imagine Convergence Conference on Orcas Island, exhibited in the Goodwitch/Badwitch exhibition at MoM in Seattle and was featured as a guest artist at renowned visionary painter Alex Grey's COSM in New York. She studied classical painting at Southern Oregon School of Fine Art and received her certification in Natural Science Illustration at University of Washington.