About
I'm Michele Payne, an abstract artist based on the South coast in Sussex, in the UK.
Since graduating from Brighton University in 1994, I've worked as a surface and textile designer and in returning to my love of painting and making art over the past five years, it's been exciting to see my work unfolding.
My painting practice is intuitive and emotion-led, often starting with colours that have an emotional resonance for me.
Recent themes for my art have been connection and belonging, which have inspired bright, evocative paintings that incorporate elements of symbolism, fragmented, imagined landscapes and structures created from blurred memories and glimpses of nature.
Exhibitions + Selections
FLOCK
Group exhibition
Gallery North, Hailsham
8th August - 19th September
EUPHORIA x Art.Fait
Group exhibition
Indra Gallery, London
28th August
VIVID
Colonnade House, Worthing
23rd-28th June 2026
Juxtapose + Deconstruct art Installations
Worthing Festival Sound Garden
Homefield Park
21st-22nd June 2026
DIVINE
Group exhibition
Phoenix Art Space, Brighton
April 2026
The Other Art Fair
The Truman Brewery, London
5-8 March 2026
CONNECTION
Exhibition
Newland Gallery, Worthing
June - September 2025
'Softly Sundown'
Jackson's Art prize Longlist 2025
Worthing Festival Artist 2025
RESONANCE
Group exhibition
Colonnade House, Worthing
September 2025
'Feel The Happy'
Atelier Brighton Open Call 2023
Lost in the Water'
Cuckmere Haven Open Call 2023
GLIMMER
Exhibition
Colonnade House, Worthing
June 2024
COEXIST SPACES
Group exhibition
Worthing Artists Open Houses 2023
RIOT + PAYNE
Joint exhibition
Colonnade House, Worthing
September 2022
