M. Michele Thorp is a third generation artist who founded MOSSY LOG STUDIO in a wooded area near Springfield, Oregon. A former public school teacher in arts and crafts, Michele earned a B.S. in Art Education and M.S. in Education from the University of Oregon. After public school teaching she continued as a painting instructor at local galleries and art centers and as a freelance painter while she and her attorney husband raised four children. Her artwork includes a variety of landscape, floral, still life, portraits, and wildlife subjects as well as some...more