Michael Mercier

I was born in Wichita Kansas, and grew up drawing, coloring and painting my way through childhood and adolescence in Odessa, Midland and Houston Texas. In my second year at the University of Houston, the Vietnam Era raised its ugly head and I was invited to participate. I dodged into the Navy, and served in San Diego, Charleston, Pensacola, Bremerhaven Germany and Philadelphia, skipping Southeast Asia and all seven seas entirely.

After the Navy I lived in Houston, Atlanta, and Columbus, Ohio building a career as an advertising art director, and creative director. I worked for a number of retail and advertising firms including, for a dozen years, my own.

Success proving burdensome, the family being raised and dispersed, the pets having departed and the 20th century receding into the past, I took some refresher courses and put myself to work as a painter.

The rest is a work in progress.

2 years, University of Houston
Majoring in Art