Micheal Haran

Micheal Haran studied at The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. He lives and works in West London. He exhibited 8x paintings at The Florence Biennale, Italy in October 2023. His painting ‘Flowers Of Serenity’ was featured in Saatchi Art’s Chief Curator’s Summer 2023 collection.

Diverse Themes, Modern Painter, Wide-ranging Medias

The themes of his work are wide-ranging and include abstract figurative or biomorphic art and abstract expressionism. Playful surrealism, highly coloured and full of motion, using a multitude of mediums. He is very influenced by his experiences in the DreamTime, shamanism, surrealism, biomorphic sculpture, DaDa, Post-impressionist, synthetic, and futurist art movements, archaeology, and ancient cultures, as well as hand-drawn vintage cartoons and talking billboards.

Inspiration and Altruism Jazz, and many other music genres, and a vast variety of literature, especially the Beat movement writers, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. Micheal spent 2.5 years living in Iquitos, Peru studying Amazonian Plant Spirit Shamanism, which had a profound effect on all aspects of his life. He is very passionate about Amazonian and other rainforest conservation. Please see www.amazonia.love .

Micheal had an exhibition at The Tabernacle in Notting Hill Gate in January 2020 where he donated 40% of sales proceeds to 3 charities, including the Rainforest Trust, which was able to conserve 625 acres of rainforest.