Michael John Phipps[1], born 1979 in Daytona Beach, comes from an exstensive New England family with root in Boston, Massachusetts and Vermont. He had an early interest in art at a very young age which gained him entry into art shows as early as the age of five years old. His first at the Community College of Daytona at age five which displayed simple works which displayed masterful perspective for a young age. At the age of 16 he moved to Colorado, where after completing High School in Aurora, Colorado he gained entry into the University of Colorado, Boulder to study Fine Arts in 1998. At graduation while receiving a Bachelors in Fine Arts, an exhibition received notable press reviewlink title.
After college graduation, Michael's career was rather broad and somewhat comparable to a factotum with experiences ranging from various trades in sales and other labor jobs - as well as jobs with in the art realm. He lived briefly in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Currently, while living now in San Francisco, California, Michael John Phipps works independently of most art gallery institutions with limited release fine art works and commission works focusing on portraits of people and occasional tongue in cheek portraits of animals that are noticable dreamscapes. He also works regularly as a trained optician and lab technician. He maintains a website cataloging some of his works [2] and continues to produce art to this day.