ISLAND ARTS Co-operative Art Gallery
Mike Segal
acrylic paintings and prints
Mike Segal's mother gave him her paint box 37 years ago, and he has been painting ever since. Mike's art takes you to another place: somewhere in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina or Georgia, or to a Florida fishing village or old Florida town, or maybe he lets you visit with his cousin's Jack Russell dogs or his hound dog or his friend's dogs and cats. They are an autobiography of Mike; his paintings are all from places in his heart and soul.Mike graduated from North Carolina State University School of Design in 1976, with a Bachelor of Environmental Design in Landscape Architecture. He worked as a Landscape Designer for the Florida Department of Natural Resources, where he designed 60 public parks in Florida. His work has been exhibited in the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina and the Hickory Museum of Art in Hickory, North Carolina as well as many other regional cultural centers throughout the United States. He has exhibited by invitation to shows throughout North Carolina, Florida, St. Louis, Missouri, Atlanta, Georgia and Chicago, Illinois.Mike has taught thousands of children with the North Carolina Mountain Arts Program, the Florida Artist in the Schools Program, Florida Arts Celebration, and the Artsreach Artist Lecture Series in the Alachua County Library System, public and private schools and home schooling. He has served as a Board Member on the Alachua County Cultural Affairs Board and as a Board Member for the Cedar Key Art Center. He has exhibited in hundreds of sidewalk art shows throughout the United States and has won numerous awards for his unique style of painting. Mike and his wife Marvi Wynn, his partner in life and art since 1970, live near Chiefland, Florida, a small North Florida town seven miles from the Suwannee River and 20 miles from the Gulf of Mexico.