Michael Mullen is a painter living and working in Glasgow. "I have been exhibiting and selling my work since shortly after leaving art school in 1988," he says. "My work reflects my fascination with my environment and the subjects of my paintings are selected partly for their personally symbolic value, textural or colour effects. I like to think that my practice allows me to combine a formal approach to painting, borne of my life-long interest in the varied approaches of artists through the ages, with a more visceral, expressionist sensibility.