Michael Ives
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MEET the ARTIST (con't)

Expelled from Catholic school for:

-Staring out the window. 

-Always drawing instead of applying himself. 
-Being a disruption to the class, a real ‘wise-acre'.

(Michael says of those early formative years:
"Thank God it was the early 50's and
"Boys will be boys." If I was in school
today and acting up like I did back then,
they'd ​have me on Lithium.)


-Received a D- in the only art class he ever took.


-Self-taught in water colors, acrylics, video production
and creating paintings on the iPad and iPhone.


​ Taught Architecture for the Peace Corps in West Africa,
traveled quite a bit of the world, painting as he went.

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He now divides his time between Tucson, Arizona
​and Lanikai, Hawai’i with his wife Jill and family.

His daily formula of getting up
each day and saying:

“OK, what do I want to create today?”
serves him well in both his art and life.
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Gifts & Prints
to see all the great images and ideas available.
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    • CARIBBEAN ART
    • BERMUDA ART
    • BALI ART
    • Abstract Art
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