Cool Water 4 Painting

Award-winning artist Michelle Woolley Sauter is the Principal Interior Designer at One Coast Design has been a professional artist for more than twenty years. She has produced works collected world-wide with a large and varied portfolio from original paintings on canvas and wood, embellished prints, tapestries, and hand-painted original mirrors. Michelle got her start designing furniture and artwork for Yacht Interior companies such as Ferretti of America, who commissioned her for all their art installations for their vessels in Ft. Lauderdale, FL – an international hub for mega yachts and the yachting industry. Her work and influence can be seen in numerous hotels and private homes up and down the Atlantic Coast, around the Caribbean, Israel, Thailand, and even aboard Royal Caribbean’s Sovereign of the Seas. She was sought after by the Swarovski crystal family for an entire art collection she created for their estate in North Palm Beach, has designed entire lines for Tommy Bahama Stores International, and wallpaper lines for the Nessen Showroom Tropical Wallpapers line at the Design Center for the Americas. Her work has also earned the prestigious award of First Place | Best in Show – at the Hortt Memorial Competition, hosted by the Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale. Creating large-scale painting installations for the City of Celebration, Disney World International and being commissioned by designers for residential homes desiring framed original artwork all over South Florida are some of the highlights of her early years. Michelle has been commissioned for artwork by some of the most prestigious art brokers and designers in the world. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, and made South Florida her ‘home base’ from which to provide her clients with unmatched excellence in custom art acquisitions. When clients of Michelle’s work started to become social friends, that’s when her Interior Design career began to really take off. Her clients came to her home and fell in love with her aesthetic and love for interiors. Friends began asking her to consider helping them with their Interior Design needs and she realized she had found her sweet spot! One Coast Design specializes in Residential and Yacht Interior Design from an artist’s perspective.