About Me

Michelle Laubscher Jäger

My background is in textiles, illustration and healthcare. I have diplomas in both textile design and health care.
Currently I am self-employed as a therapeutic reflexologist.
The diversity of my background has provided rich reference and inspiration for my work as well as the fact that I spend a great deal of time with dancers and designing and painting dance costumes. 

My interest in anatomy, physiology and movement has translated into my artwork. The human form including the face, can either mirror or betray our emotional, spiritual, physical and social state. Of the older artists, I find the dream like quality of Chagall’s work an inspiration. More current artists I draw inspiration from are Henrik Uldalen, Françoise de Felice and South African artists Schalk Van Der Merwe and Lady Skollie.

I would like to explore in more depth the ambiguity of human expression. How we fit (or don’t fit) into our surroundings and emotions. Are we here to stay or just visiting? We are always chasing a happy state yet never really stop to appreciate it.  We have a fragile glimpse of a gut laugh and we’re off on our endeavour, our journey for everlasting ecstasy.
Did we really see that ugly laughing face, or did we dream it?
Sad, moody, agonizing and tortured is far more lyrical, far more beautiful to behold.