Michelle Daisley Moffitt graduated from the University of Missouri in Columbia with a BFA in 1991. She received her MFA from the University of Missouri in 1993. She now lives in Omaha, Nebraska where she maintains a downtown studio in a renovated warehouse known as the "Hot Shops".

ARTIST STATEMENT

I attempt to explore this emotive impact through strong color as it relates to abstracted natural forms. My use of the landscape form exists so that I may physically structure my images around natural forces. The images in nature are inexhaustible, allowing for constant variety to examine and manipulate color and the other formal elements. Through this manipulation of natural forms, I trace the passion of vigor that is present during the works conception. I want these landscapes or "inscapes", as I prefer to call them, to develop the personal symbolism within the image.

To me, my work conveys the urgency in acting on ones own emotions. These internal feelings spring from outside stimuli and are acted out aggressively. Since I am a private person, I feel my work speaks visually of my personality in ways that I choose not to speak verbally. It explores the depth of my soul and my mind. When I work on these images, the universality of the range of primal emotions alive in every individual is explored on a grand scale and for this reason I feel they are objects to which every person can relate in one way or another. My intention is to translate the beauty of the human experience through the images I produce, not by simply explaining, but by evoking.