Michael studied Arts and Humanities subjects at the Hatfield Polytechnic and the University of Oxford. In his landscape photography he avoids idealised images of environmental states but seeks to convey evocations of the uncanny and prospects of enchantment. An abiding theme is the corrupted pastoral, which describes how artificial forms collide and combine with the natural. His more recent work is in colour abstraction in the diptych form.  Also a writer and a photographer of faces, his commentaries on artists and their portraits can be found in South West Academy: Art, People, Place (2014), and The Penwith Society of Arts: Portraits of the Artists (2018).