MIchelle Ball

Michelle Ball is an Australian contemporary artist known for her paintings based on themes of history and care for the Australian bush. 

Ball studied art and film making before beginning her career as a creative director in publishing, but has always painted.

“I see that we are all small parts of a whole. We adapt and are forever evolving, I cannot help but be influenced by situations, people and places around me and this observation makes for an ongoing story,” she says.

At a young age Ball was influenced by her great aunt, painter Edith Priscilla King, whose subjects were landscapes and still life. When Ball lived and worked in New York she studied watercolour with Robert Schefman, took classes at the Art Students League and was influenced by the vibrant art scene of the 1980s. 

Today, most of Ball’s work is linked to her care of the bush, the western foreshores of Pittwater where she lives and travelling around Australia. Endangered flora and fauna and rewilding is a continuing theme.