Michelle Spark was born in Philadelphia, Pa. She studied painting at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts and Queens College. After completing a master’s degree in Art Therapy at New York University, she taught there and worked in a large metropolitan New York hospital. Currently, she devotes her time to painting, Zen practice, and local watershed concerns.
Water: “The color blue and swimming pools. When I was three, the blueness of the pool water captured me so! I fell in. I was still looking when I got yanked out. I took to long distance swimming, the great silent body movement- and the color blue has always been in my mind. Esopus Creek is always there, since glacial times when the Ashokan Basin was a lake, then emptied out, becoming a creek. Flowing onwards, clay based, cobble bars, rounded river rocks, white water, trout leaping, minks swimming, deer crossing, bear fishing. Always, flowing coming, going, never still.”