About Mike Meares

I am an artist based in San Francisco. I work with a variety of mediums including oil paint, acrylic paint, pastels, and ink. My artwork focuses on the exploration of the imagination with themes rooted in the emotions and experiences of life. My images are very dreamlike. The power of line is an overlying force, combining with bold colors, shapes, and abstracted negative spaces to create interesting compositions. Since moving to San Francisco, i have become inspired by the shapes, and lines of the city. This fascination has influenced me to create a distinctive style of cityscape paintings, some focusing more on the visual aspects of my surroundings, and some investigating the effects that living in the city has on me.