About the Artist
Born and raised in Southern California, Michael Moon knew he wanted to be an artist since the second grade. From this time until graduating from college he periodically continued his interest in painting, drawing and art history and after finishing his M.A. in Educational Psychology, he began a combination of formal study of art at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, and UCLA. For the next nine years he painted essentially in solitude. During this time he also began to be influenced by Eastern thought as well as the practice of meditation and he began to integrate Eastern and Western thought in the symbolism of his paintings.