THE RAW ARTIST™


author :: raw foodist :: raw artist

Michel Leah, a.k.a. The Raw Artist™, is a self-taught, outsider artist from the midwest. While Michel has been creating art in various forms throughout her life it was not until 2003, after having reversed several serious health conditions, that she started creating her art on a full-time basis.

Michel's brush name, The Raw Artist, holds two meanings. Her trademarked nickname pertains, in most part, to her raw food lifestyle; the lifestyle that she attributes to saving her life. But her alias, The Raw Artist, has a second meaning as well. It also refers to the very nature of Michel's art. Michel has had no formal art training. Michel is a self taught artist that marches solely to the beat of her own drum.


The Raw Artist's works are included in hundreds of private and corporate collections throughout the U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Chile, London, France, Italy, Austria, Portugal, Greece, Malta, and other European countries.


Chastised by some in the art world for her choice of self-representation, Michel admits she has no regrets. "Look... I'm a living artist making a damn good living doing what I was born to do.. create. I'm blessed! If I have to promote myself so I can do what I love full-time, as opposed to joining the rat race.. working a job that sucks the life out of me and creating whenever I can 'find time'.. well, then, I find absolutely no shame in that. I'm not opposed to non-vanity art gallery representation. However, I find it utterly foolish for an artist to submit to 'starving artist' status for fear that their self-promotion, especially in regards to eBay, is ruining some future chance they may have of eminent gallery representation."

Likes

• ANIMALS (i prefer them 2 humans)
• outsider art
• folk art
• music
• rawvioli
• hiking
• b movies
• horror movies
• reality tv
• justin timberlake (yummy!!)

Dislikes

• mean people