Michael G. Booth is widely recognized as an accomplished painter, sculptor and potter. His art is characterized by skillful control, expressive contemplative emotion, and academic composition. After receiving the ultimate studio art degrees, he became an art professor, teaching for thirty-five years. Michael maintained a professional art career, exhibiting and winning awards, judging and organizing shows, lecturing, publishing five art books, creating a series of instructional videos, and owning several art galleries. Images of his art and feature stories have appeared in numerous publications. His art has been placed in many high profile collections and public locations.
There are few artists that can match Michael’s diversity and mastery of so many art forms and media. He works in a wide range of styles from high-realism to abstraction within the art forms of painting, sculpture and pottery in the media of acrylic, oil, watercolor, ceramic clay, bronze and cement. Michael’s work varies in all sizes from monumental to miniatures.
Michael’s work includes art series with subjects of human figures, horses, American Indians, and mountainous landscapes. Since his most prevalent and continuous series depicts Glacier National Park, some have even titled him, “The Glacier Artist”.
THE ART
It is Michael’s intention to make his art a good investment for the collector. Naturally the originals have the greatest potential to appreciate in value over time, and to help the value of his reproductions appreciate Michael sets a very low number for his limited editions. His Giclee canvases, that are reproduced from his original acrylic and oil paintings, and his reproduction paper prints from the original watercolors and colored pencils, are printed in editions of only 250. This is an extremely low number compared to typical editions. His bronze sculptures are also very limited in minimal editions of 10, 25, or 30, and some are even 1 of 1. Each piece is signed and numbered. All his pottery is completely original and signed.
THE GALLERY
Michael and his wife, Janet, live and work in their uniquely designed gallery/studio/home in the high mountains located on the west entrance highway to Glacier National Park in northern Montana. The beautiful commodious Quonset style log art building was designed and built by the artist. The gallery is open to retail business during the summer months in correlation to the open season of the national park.