"Great success stories in life can start with the most unlikely elements. Take Michael Godard. Who would have guessed that America was hungry for fine art featuring olives, grapes and strawberries with human characteristics?
Born in Southern California, Godard was a precocious kid with a multitude of talents and a dark home life filled with hidden abuse. He excelled in math, music and art—quite an achievement, considering that his family moved around so much that he attended a total of sixteen different schools. Humor was always his defense and his weapon. As a young man he attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and studied fine art at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas.
The decision to become a full-time painter came later in his life, after stints as a mechanical engineer, commercial illustrator, caricature artist and successful entrepreneur. Nothing came easy—he fought his way into an art career, inventing his own path and his own one-of-a-kind style. Godard says, “First I learned the rules of the art world, then forgot them all and painted the way I wanted to.”
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Screen-printing is the most painterly of the printing techniques. It allows the use of layer upon layer of color, exploiting line and mass in bold ways.
The inks can be printed as rich impastos or thin transparent glazes. The result is a print that is both vivid in hue and displays a rich tactile surface.