About the Artist
Michele LaMontagne Hausman creates original landscape oil paintings both plein air and in her California studio. Her love for painting first led her to watercolors but in the mid 1990s she found her true love in painting with oils. She has founded a plein air painters' organization in Santa Cruz, served on boards of other art organizations, won various awards, and been invited to numerous plein air competitions and juried shows. Her paintings have appeared in magazines, graced the covers of poetry books, and been published in secondary school textbooks.