Michael Schramer

I am very excited to have the representation of Kara Stewart from Los Angeles. She is an up and coming artist's rep who has years of success in marketing. She runs an informative blog and hosts a beautiful website at www.ksrepresents.com

Love to hear from you.

Michael Schramer

 

Art and I have been on a beautiful inward journey. Part play, part anquish and despair and part tapping into the cores of my happiness unexplored. Currently, I am producing and directing movie shorts with my wife using our nature art. These are going to be fun and imaginative; we hope to get really creative and make them a visual and audio journey into the life of artists......a kind of music video of art. We have practice clips on Youtube under the name of natureartists.

Welcome to the memories of my childhood and the toys and sculpture that are inspired from that time in my life. I love to image I am a relation to Ghepetto. I often feel that way because my art works seems to take on a life of their own. 


Cheers! Have a good day!

Michael John

 

 I am commiting myself to more figurative sculptures. Once a month I want to post another completed sculpture. I will be working in wax with damar resin and wooden armatures. I will receive casting estimates locally so I can oversee the work. The life is in the work, that is where I need to be. I am not so much a student of life I am a feeler of life and I desire to connect with the unspeakable.





 

Come in! Welcome! I am Michael John Schramer. I have ancestors form Ireland, France, England, Wales, Holland, Italy, Germany, Belgium and Grecce and DNA knows where else. Though I am a citizen of the USA, I consider myself to be as fragile a plant as any of our world's flowers that stand in the wind to make their beauty known. It is nice of you to be here looking at my art. I hope that the language I convey in my work gives you a sense of the love and affection I have for this earth and the people here on it with me. I have created works that give me great pleasure and in doing so they have expanded my ability to observe even greater details about life. Empathy for others lives is at the heart of my sculputral expressions.

Hi! Welcome to my art show. It is nice to meet you.  My work was meant in the begining, to be for the weary of the body, mind and soul, and it still is. I want to convey the beauty as I see it pass through my hands. I love simple pleasures, a garden, a cat, good tasting food and drinks and a home that feels like my castle. If you could see my apartment now you would see it filled with art of every kind. It truely is an inspiring haven.



 

Will list information here soon.

I began in the Northwest United States, one hour south of Seattle, Washington. We were living on three acres of an old horse ranch where I piled hordes of natural materials for supplies. My workspace would be anywhere I could clear a space on a table, preferrably in front of a window where I could see trees. I have had studios nestled in the forest and the woods, by the ocean within the sound of the waves, overlooking a bay on Puget Sound, where I could watch the tug boats pushing barges and in a desert where my only solace and friends were the birds. I have worked in lavish mansions and small apartments to wooded ski resort homes overlooking the downhill slopes.

This is only a partial list of the art exhibits that my wife Debbie and I participated in. We have been approached by various people to design theme parks, be on the conceptual design team for a Hollywood movie, and work on a private children's park, just to name a few of the great opportunities we've had.

1991 Featured article in "Victoria" magazine
1991 Featured article in "Detroit Monthly" magazine
1991 Commission for the Richard Nixon Museum, Yorba Linda, California
1992 Invited to teach classes at Waldorf schools
1992 Represented at Atlanta, New York, and San Francisco Gift shows.
1992 Featured in the book "Pleasures of the Garden" by Emyl Jenkins
1993 Featured artists at "Sticks and Stones" Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1993 Featured special artists in the Seattle Folklife Festival miniature show
1994 Newspaper article, Los Angeles Times
1995 Featured in the book, "Chairmania", by art collector/art consultant George Bylerian
1995 Exhibit in the American Visionary Art Museum's inaugural show "The Tree Of Life"
1995 Featured in "Craft" magazine and contacted by art buyers from Dubai
1996 Visited by Brian Rohan, lawyer for Polygram records and movies
1996 Articles in "Country Folk Art" and "Travel and Leisure" magazines, "Maine Antiques Digest" and "The Baltimore Sun" newspapers
1997 Featured in "Teddy Bears and Friends" magazine
1999 Exhibited our 5' x 4' at Repartee' Gallery in Salt Lake City and Provo, Utah
2001 Article and photos published in "Child Art International" magazine
2003 Invitation to work two weeks in Matt Lamb's Museum in Dussuleforf, Germany
2004 Mind Port Gallery, Bellingham, Washington
2004 Whatcom County Art Museum store, Bellingham, Wa.
2004 Invitation from "Child Art International" to work with children in Sri Lanka on art projects, after psunami
2004 "Best of Show" at the Seattle Dollhouse Miniature Show
2004 Featured artist at Tom Bishop's Chicago International Miniature Show; interviewed by magazines from Spain, Germany, England and the U.S.
2005 Shoalwater Cove Art Gallery, Ilwaco Washington

Coming soon.

I began my creative art journey in 1987. While attending drawing and design classes, I found that I possesed too much energy to continue in those mediums at that time in my life. I was bursting at the seams with creative ideas, so I let my creative energies come out in the way that they wanted to by using natural materials; they were my first choice. After assembling and amassing a large body of artwork created by my wife and I, we exhibited through the encourgment of friends and neighbors at a library in Lakewood, Washington. We immediately were approached by interior designers looking for something new and different. They remarked that our work had a whimsical quailty which they liked but they also commented on the style and beauty our works possesed.

One invitation led to another. My early fascination with carving wood taught to me by my older brother Stephen when I was a young boy was coming back not just as a visit but this inspiration would stay with me the rest of my life.

Magazine articles were followed by reperesentation at major gift shows and gallery shows.

More soon!!

Art for me has been a healing journey of self-discovery into the deeper awareness of who I am in relation to the rest of the universe.
I have had a long journey and relationship using nature as an art material. It has been spiritual in that there have been many moments, days, months and years to assimulate the spirits of the natural world that have a voice which I feel I can hear. It is the voice that one hears when they hold a rock or piece of wood and feel the energy from that material. It is that voice, that material matter that is my muse.

"Best of Show" at the Seattle Miniature Show, March 2005

Special invitation in 2005 to the Tom Bishop International Miniature Show in Chicago, the largest international miniature show in the world.

Invitation to be special Guest Artists at "The Magic Of Oregon" Art Show, 1992, Portland, Oregon

Our 5' x 4' Nature Treehouse was voted fourth most popular work of art out of the 400 other works of art at the opening exhibit of "The Tree Of Life", at the The American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland in 1995.

A second invitation from Rebecca Hoffberger at The American Visionary Art Museum's Exhibit "The Art of Stroytelling", one year exhibit, 2012-2013.

Invitation to exhibit in the "Best of the Northwest" Art Show in Seattle, Washington, 1992

Invitation to exhibit in the Seattle Folk Life Festival's special miniature exhibit in 1991