Michelle Pashko

Michelle Pashko is a Canadian artist living and working lakeside in Caesarea, Ontario — surrounded by the wildlife and landscapes that inform every painting she makes.

Her work is rooted in a lifelong attunement to the natural world. Growing up on a farm in rural Ontario in the 1970s and 80s, she was immersed in wildflowers, changing seasons, and the quiet beauty that reveals itself only when you slow down enough to notice. That sense of wonder has never left her work.

The Work
Michelle Pashko works primarily in acrylic using impasto techniques — thick, expressive brushwork that gives each piece a dimensional, tactile quality impossible to replicate in print. She also works with alcohol inks, which bring a fluid, luminous energy to wildlife portraits and abstract grounds. Many pieces layer both: rich texture beneath vibrant, flowing colour.

Her subjects range from the majestic — wolves, cougars, herons, eagles — to the quietly extraordinary: wildflower fields, lily ponds, the particular light of a cottage country evening. Each painting is completely one of a kind. Once it leaves the studio, it exists nowhere else in the world.

McClean Exhibition Ajax
Goodwood Mercantile Exhibition
Scugog Arts Juried Exhibition