Michelle Daisley Moffitt is an award-winning abstract mixed media painter based in Omaha, Nebraska. Known for her vibrant paintings, Moffitt's work explores themes of home, longing, love, beauty, and nature through a symbolic and internal narrative. She creates pieces that reveal energy and joy, driven by her love of color, pattern, and texture. Moffitt earned both her BFA and MFA from the University of Missouri-Columbia and has exhibited her work widely in solo and group exhibitions across the United States. Her distinctive style invites viewers to engage in their own personal interpretations, as her abstract forms and dynamic palette tell unique visual stories. Her original paintings are held in numerous private collections both domestically and internationally. "Within the images I create, I have attempted to explore my intuitive responses to my life and experiences. I have sought to produce bold, outgoing images through my private and internal struggles to come into harmony with myself. Because my concerns usually center on a symbolic and narrative ‘inscape’, I expect the viewer will become involved in his or her own interpretations. I am concerned with conveying the range of primal emotions which every individual feels. I attempt to explore this emotive impact through strong color as it relates to abstracted natural forms.Art is important because it captures pivotal moments of the soul’s experience, or a special or tragic event in the soul’s journey. It goes beyond personal expression, serving not only as a reflection of individual insight but also as a guide for those who come later. I attempt, through my own understanding of the emotions I experience, to reach out universally with my images, trying to share what others might feel. I achieve this with the overt physicality of the abstractions combined with the active and expressive color. The work elicits an emotional response because it is at once aggressive and pleasurable. These are celebratory images. I physically structure my images around natural forces. The images in nature are inexhaustible, allowing for constant variety to examine and manipulate color and the other formal elements. Through this manipulation of abstracted natural forms, I trace the passion and vigor that is present during the works conception. To me, my work conveys the urgency in acting on one’s own emotions. These internal feelings spring from outside stimuli and are acted out aggressively. Since I am a private person, I feel my work speaks visually of my personality in ways that I choose not to speak verbally. It explores the depth of my soul and mind. When I work on these images, the universality of the range of primal emotions alive in every individual is explored on a grand scale and for this reason I feel they are objects to which every person can relate in one way or another. My intention is to translate the beauty of human experience through the images I produce, not by simply explaining but by evoking."- Michelle Daisley Moffitt