Michelle Vulama has been drawing and painting her entire life. As a self-taught artist, her interests and techniques were a little unconventional, which led her to her current fascination: painting rocks. “My work just sort of evolved into it,” she says of her now growing business, Michelle Vulama: Rock Painter. “Before, it was textural and two-dimensional, messing up the paint and finding images in scribbles and ink blots. The rocks became a three-dimensional version of that.”
Michelle’s art uses the natural shape of the rock to create something entirely new, unique and beautiful. Her pieces range in size from small pendants to larger rocks you can barely lift on your own. Each one is completely unique and hand-painted by the artist who sees the world a little differently.
“Somebody once described me as a painter with the mind of a sculptor,” Michelle says. “That works well as a description because I’m using the three dimensons of the rock, and all the natural shapes and textures. They look sculpted after I’m done but they’re really only painted.”
