Michelle Moats
Shippensburg, PA
Fiber artist primarily focused on painting fiber portraits using bold expressive color to convey the emotion of her subject.
MessageMichelle Moats is a painter who uses wool fibers as her medium. Her fiber paintings, primarily portraits of people and animals, use bold unexpected colors to convey the emotion of her subject. At a distance, her results are often mistaken for oil paintings. She uses wet felting and needle felting techniques to create her art.
While Michelle has always dabbled in a variety of art forms, she discovered her love for fiber painting during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, she turned this passion into a business. Michelle loves to hang her work in galleries and participate in exhibits, hoping to increase the overall awareness of the fiber arts and to delight viewers with surprise when they realize her paintings are made from dyed wool. Michelle is a resident of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.
Statement
"My fiber portraits, with their bold colors and emotional faces, make a quick initial impression. My goal is to inspire a deeper look—a look to study the unexpected use of wool fiber as a medium for painting and even more so, to ponder the story of the subject in that fiber painting."