He teaches Asian art classes and is curator of the Chapel Gallery at his church, Virginia Beach Community Chapel. He founded and directed the Halizo Arts Festival from 2002-2004. Throughout his artistic career Mike has enjoyed investing in the local arts community. The creative impulse of “ art making” becomes a motivational Genesis moment reflecting an imprint, the “imago dei.” For a more in-depth & personal explanation of Mike’s body of work, see his Youtube video called Carolina Sumi-e Īsian art is inherently spiritual, and so nature is the Designer’s signature. Subtleties in the brushed line and composition reflect a generative truth regarding balance, complementarity, and the risks and joys of growth.

His work primarily focuses on what he calls liminal or “threshold” spaces- a shallow marsh, the eddies creating a pause in a winding creek, a dune-scape that transitions to the sea, a critical moment as seasons change. His art applies these learned traditional Asian watercolor medium techniques to East-Coast American landscapes, flora, and fauna. Mike Lane is a native of the Virginia Coast and North Carolina's Outer Banks, but lived and worked in Asia for the better part of the last 30 years, and from 2008 through 2014, he studied with accomplished, and very patient, artists in southern China. Betwixt & Between ENGAGING TRANSITIONAL SPACES & TRANSFORMATION THROUGH ART

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