About Michelle Phelips from Art With Heart |

f the soul through spiritual art.

Michelle Phelips, was born in Toronto, where she was trained as a graphic designer at Humber College School of Design. For many years Michelle worked in Advertising before returning to the Ontario College of Art in 1989 to study Fine Art.

Michelle works in mixed media, acrylic paint, collage, printmaking and sculpture, often using found objects from nature. Her art explores feelings, values and personal truth as a way of connecting from the head to the heart.

Among Michelle’s accomplishments is the creation of colourful and uplifting banners for the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organisation, Van City Place for Youth and Green Grass Productions, a fundraiser for street kids. Her illustrations and paintings can be found on books, and cd covers and in magazines. Her exclusive line of angel cards are sold in Toronto, New York and Europe.

Michelle’s one- artist show, “I was a Bird in a cage and you gave me the sky” at the Idee Gallery was celebrated in Toronto. She has also taught meditation and exercises in creativity to women at the North York Women’s Shelter, facilitated workshops for artists’ block, and has taught creative workshops for various community groups and school projects in Toronto and Vancouver.

Michelle has combined her meditation practice with 20 years of visual art experience and discovered the joy and wonder of self-expression and created Art With Heart creative workshops. More than ever, she is inspired by the creative process and wishes to share her art and the process for healing with others.

In 2003, Michelle once again travelled extensively through parts of India, England, and even her native Canada, finding new inspiration for her work.
In 2004, she will be bringing her successful devine child virtue paintings and intuitive readings (that she is currently doing in Vancouver) back to Toronto with her, continuing her quest to create art with heart.