Michael McEwan
Birth Date: 1956

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Michael McEwan was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1956. He attended the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC beginning in 1974 and received his BFA in 1978. Michael continued to live and paint in the Washington DC area until 1981 when he returned to Columbus to attend graduate school at The Ohio State University receiving his MFA in 1984. Michael served as Artist-in-Residence at Capital University, Columbus, OH for several years teaching painting and drawing classes. Michael has also taught at the Columbus College of Art and Design, and the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. In 2009, Michael opened the McEwan Studio School and conducts studio classes for professionals and serious amateurs in drawing and painting. “I make paintings of the landscape. Based on memory and informed by observation, I build my paintings both swiftly and often slowly. With several paintings in process at once and using many layers of paint I develop a sense of light and space that is palpable. I use oil and acrylic based paint on panel and canvas. I have spent many years researching various, and often overlooked approaches to color theory for the painter, including the work of Denman Waldo Ross, Frank Morley Fletcher, and Nathaniel Johnson’s “Modular Color” system. I am a student of Art History and am committed to the craft of painting. I have developed a methodology of using oil paints in a solvent free manner, using specially formulated linseed oils.” -Michael McEwan