Michael Schramer

I am 74 In January 2024. I am from a mostly Irish family. I began. Creating art seriously in and around 1987. My wife and first began creating small dwellings that looked Elfen houses shortly after we were married in 1975. By 1987 we were building so many furnishings that people started to call us the fairy people. We ended up having articles about us and our work in Victoria Magazine among others. We built a large Fairy House in 1993 for the Seattle Folk Life Festival . One of our works, an elaborate chair was given to Rebecca Hoffburger, founder of the American Visionary Art Museum and she invited us to exhibit that house in her opening exhibit. Tree Of Life in1995. In 2012 our son, Matthew, a film maker, introduced us to a publisher of artworks, Christopher Robbins, who we published three books with. Fairy House, 2015, Fairy Village, 2017. And F Is For Fairy. In 2018. In 2016 we opened our own shop Fairy House Vintage Antiques & Art which houses our Fairy House, Fairy Village, our paintings and sculptures and rooms full of curious and beautiful things we have collected. The shop which began in Ocean Park Washington is now in Provo Utah. We recently took a trip to France. England and Ireland. We are trying to work out away take...

Life

Numerous exhibitions in the the Northwest.