MICHELE FLETCHER

Michele Fletcher (Canadian, b.1963) lives and works in London, UK.

Fletcher’s paintings are informed by the natural world. Relying on visual memory, they are more sensation than place: a process-led abstracted rumination on light, colour and form in a garden. Her paintings are a rhythmic, gestural and intuitive response to her immediate surroundings. The making of a garden, like a painting involves an intervention with material - pulling, pushing, manipulating and composing. A reimagining of our relationship with the natural world, the work is rooted in both the tradition of landscape painting and the language of abstraction.

Originally from Canada, Fletcher studied at Goldsmiths College (BA hons Fine Art and Critical Theory) and Chelsea, graduating with a MA in 2007. The recipient of The Neville Burston Award for Painting (Goldsmiths College) and the Marmite Prize for Painting, she was also a Royal Overseas League Scholar at Hospitalfields, via the Patrick Alan Fraser Trust, Scotland. Fletcher’s painting Compost was a prize winner in the 2020 John Moores Painting Prize. Her work has been selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2009, 2018, 2021 and 2022.

Michelle Fletcher has paintings in numerous collections including The House of Koko, Soho House, The Groucho Club, University of the Arts, The Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge and Ernst and Young. Fletcher’s work was featured in over ten shows in 2023 and she had a two-person presentation at NADA Miami with Patricia Fleming Gallery in December 2023.