Mike Segal

BIOGRAPHY

Mike Segal was born in Miami Beach, Florida, February 6, l949. He married Marvi Wynn in 1970 and she is his partner in life and art. Mike’s mother gave him her paint box thirty-seven years ago and he has been painting ever since.

His paintings take 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 he tells you a story from the Bible, and he lets you visit with his cousin’s Jack Russell dogs or his hound dog or his friend’s dogs and cats. When you look at his art you feel good because they are happy brilliant-colored paintings that take you out of your reality for as long as you wish to view them. 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, Bachelor of Environmental Design in Landscape Architecture in 1976. He worked as a Landscape Designer for the Florida Department of Natural Resources , where he designed sixty public parks in Florida.

Mike has exhibited his work 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 Marvi now live near Chiefland, Florida, a small North Florida town seven miles from the Suwannee River and twenty miles from the Gulf of Mexico. He continues to produce paintings of the North Carolina and Georgia Appalachian mountains, the Florida Gulf coast, subjects from the Bible and earns a living as a full-time artist at sidewalk art shows and private exhibitions throughout the Southeastern United States.