Michael Hawthorne was born in California, raised in upstate New York, and has lived in Florida since 1990. Primarily a self-taught artist, Michael has attended classes at Binghamton New York’s “Roberson Center for the Arts”, Orlando Florida’s “Valencia Community College”, and has worked as a fellow at Winter Park Florida’s “Crealde School of Art”. Michael enjoys creating portraits and figurative works using charcoal, oil, or watercolor. The focus of his works are the things he feels make’s his subject attractive such as the innocence in a child’s eyes, the history...more
