Michael Green (artist)

[1][2] He moved from an initial career in theatre to art in his mid-thirties, was an autodidactic as a painter but had from his very early years a natural talent in painting and drawing.

Michael John William Green was born on 7 August 1929 in Nyasaland, East Africa (now Malawi), where he spent his first seven and a half years before coming to England for his Public School education.

He was Artist in Residence at the Indiana State University (1978), giving master classes on advanced painting and lectures on colour theory.

Green moved into abstraction soon after working figuratively, searching for a personal visual language and set up his first studio in SoHo[4] while still only an avant-garde artist area.

For him, space automatically is intrinsic to sculpture's dimensionality, so the ingredient of tension became prime: tensile linear balancing, contrasting textural disparities (shiny new, time-worn old), stressing the emotional stretch of a work.