Micheal Haran

Micheal Haran studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. He lives and works in West London. He exhibited 8 paintings at the Florence Biennale in Italy in October 2023. His painting "Flowers Of Serenity" was also featured in the Summer 2023 collection of the Chief Curator of Saatchi Art.

Various media, diverse themes

The themes of his work are very diverse and include figurative or biomorphic abstract art and abstract expressionism. A playful surrealism, very colorful and full of movement, using a multitude of media. He is greatly influenced by his experiences in the Dreamtime, shamanism, surrealism, biomorphic sculpture, Dada, post-impressionist, synthetic and futuristic art movements, archaeology and ancient cultures, as well as by vintage hand-drawn cartoons and talking billboards.

Jazz and many other musical genres, as well as a wide variety of literature, especially writers of the Beat movement, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. Micheal spent two and a half years in Iquitos, Peru, where he studied Amazonian plant shamanism, which had a profound effect on all aspects of his life. He is passionate about the conservation of the Amazon rainforest and other tropical forests. He has raised funds for rainforest conservation through art sales and donations ( www.amazonia.love ).

Micheal organized an exhibition at the Tabernacle in Notting Hill Gate in January 2020, during which he donated 40% of the sales proceeds to three charities, including the Rainforest Trust, which was able to conserve 625 acres of rainforest.