Living in Trinidad, Colorado, Eric Michaels is a plein-air landscape painter of Southwestern and European subjects using watercolors, pastels and primarily oils.

He was raised in the Midwest and earned a degree in fine art and spent several years as a social worker with the Department of Welfare in Rockford, Illinois. He had both music and art talent, and played guitar with performing groups. He is now a full-time painter, and his wife, Maxine is his business manager, shipper, and framer. The couple lived in Santa Fe before settling in Trinidad.

Some of Michaels' projects are huge including a 12 painting project on the history of El Paso, Texas, and three large paintings on the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

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