The Symphony collection embodies a convergence of auditory imagination and visual expression. Each work transposes the rhythms and tones that resonate within my mind onto canvas, creating compositions where color, texture, and form become instruments in a unified orchestration. In this creative process, I become both conductor and composer, guiding the viewer through movements that unfold like musical scores translated into visual form. Each piece is a living composition that invites viewers to experience the unseen melodies and intricate harmonies that exist within the quiet expanses of the mind.
In Intervals: The Still Between No. 1 ©2026, the horizon becomes a score: horizontal strata of atmosphere, water, and ground interrupted by a hand-drawn golden portal and small calibration glyphs. The work treats stillness not as emptiness, but as an active interval—measured, held, and entered.
Sized at 11.25 x 36 inches (28.6 x 91.4 cm)
Each original work is accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity and recorded in the Studio archive.
The first chapter in a trilogy, Tea for One ©2014, a visual and emotional journey through transformation. Two raised, luminous forms stand against a flawless black field, their stark symmetry marking a moment of internal reckoning. The figure—unseen but felt—stands at a crossroads, confronting the mirror of memory and the uncertainty of what lies ahead. This is not a painting of stillness, but of suspended movement: the quiet before emergence.The high-gloss black background gleams like polished obsidian—both infinite and impenetrable. It reflects the depth of introspection that emerges in isolation, where silence amplifies emotion. The two white forms, embossed and tactile, offer contrast and clarity. They speak of beginnings—delicate, unfinished, yet full of promise.
“A minute seems like a lifetime… when I feel this way.” (Led Zeppelin)This line drifts across the surface, capturing the elastic quality of time within the suspended state of longing. The past shimmers close, the future calls faintly. In between: the reckoning.This work is a meditation on the courage it takes to reconnect. The white figures are not merely symbolic; they are thresholds—bridges between the self that once thrived and the self that has retreated. The work does not seek resolution—it honors the liminal, the beautiful uncertainty of becoming.Through its visual restraint and emotional resonance, Tea for One invites the viewer into their own reflective space. It asks: What does it mean to return—not to who we were, but to who we are now ready to be?
Completed in the blooming spring of 2014 at the artist's studio in Chelsea, New York.
Sized at 52.75 x 62 inches (133.98 x 157.48 cm)
Each original work is accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity and recorded in the Stella Michaels Studio archive.
“A minute seems like a lifetime… when I feel this way.” (Led Zeppelin)This line drifts across the surface, capturing the elastic quality of time within the suspended state of longing. The past shimmers close, the future calls faintly. In between: the reckoning.This work is a meditation on the courage it takes to reconnect. The white figures are not merely symbolic; they are thresholds—bridges between the self that once thrived and the self that has retreated. The work does not seek resolution—it honors the liminal, the beautiful uncertainty of becoming.Through its visual restraint and emotional resonance, Tea for One invites the viewer into their own reflective space. It asks: What does it mean to return—not to who we were, but to who we are now ready to be?
Completed in the blooming spring of 2014 at the artist's studio in Chelsea, New York.
Sized at 52.75 x 62 inches (133.98 x 157.48 cm)
Each original work is accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity and recorded in the Stella Michaels Studio archive.