Author Archives: michaelgresalfiart

June 10, 2022 With “No Resistance”, my 12th and final wax-based painting in the “Our Changing Planet” series, I present a glimpse of our future world facing newly discovered invisible threats that are emerging from recently exposed arctic soils. The melting of the North and South Poles is one of the most well-known consequences ofContinue reading ““No Resistance””

June 3, 2022 Two recent additions to my series “Our Changing Planet” are “Clear-Cut” and “Coral-Reefs”. “Clear Cut” depicts a previously healthy forest now devastated from both clear-cutting all the trees and the understory vegetation. Clear-Cutting is a method of harvesting lumber that indiscriminately destroys entire wooded ecosystems and obliterates the natural habitat of endangeredContinue reading “Recent Additions to “Our Changing Planet””

May 18 2022 “I am committed to practicing Charitable Art” In the latest development of my growing commitment to the “charitable art” concept,  I am now offering free prints of my art to anyone making a charitable donation to one of the organizations I support.  As part of a special, limited arrangement, anyone who makesContinue reading “Get a Free Print of One of My Paintings”

March 3, 2022 Imagine the year is 2122. One hundred years into the future. Space vacationers can now take a submersible cruise through the below-surface ocean on Jupiter’s smallest moon, Europa. It’s an icy environment rich in bioluminescent sea life and strange alien creatures. The travel pamphlet for this tourist destination might look something likeContinue reading “Discover Europa!”

February 24, 2022 My latest piece in the ‘Our Changing Planet‘ series is simply named “Cow.” It is a quizzical portrait of the animal’s face, seeming to ask you to consider the environmental impacts of our food production processes. I don’t mean to imply that raising animals on traditional, family owned, small-scale and sustainably operatedContinue reading “Portrait of a Cow”

January 20th 2022 – Earlier this month, just after the calendar flipped to 2022, I decided to broaden my artistic range of subjects and create a series of large, wax-based paintings on poster board. I call this series “Our Changing Planet” and will be adding 6 new works to the existing 6 over the nextContinue reading “New Series – “Our Changing Planet””

December 31, 2021 – The latest addition to my “reflection series” is called “Blue on Black.” In this, my first socially-charged painting, I convey my sense of frustration and despair over one particularly violent aspect of oppression in our society and one shared with many people united across a wide and divisive spectrum of opinions.

12/25/2021 – I recently returned from a sailing adventure in the British Virgin Islands (BVIs). The wind, water, light, coral reefs, and islands generated vibrant dreams as I slept each night on the boat-as it moved around the anchor line and gently rocked in the protected cove we moored within. This painting represents my BVIContinue reading “BVI Dreams”

11/15/ 2020 – “Mataiea Floral” is the latest addition to my ‘Reflection Series’ -all pieces in this series are made by painting on framed mirrors which I find and repurpose from people discarding them locally. ‘Mataiea’ has a deeply scrolled frame and I used melted wax on the mirrored surface.  It represents the flowers IContinue reading “Tahitian Delight”