Mike Healey has exhibited extensively throughout his career in London, New York, Philadelphia, Maryland, Bermuda, Japan, Chester and in his native Scotland. Michael is a popular colourist painter of rich still lifes, landscapes, snow scenes and seascapes. He paints spontaneous ‘pleinair’ scenes mainly in the Highlands and Islands.

Michael Healey’s artworks are found in several public, corporate and private collections worldwide, including the European Parliament, the Royal Mail, Woburn Abbey, Glasgow School of Art, Argyll and Bute Museum and Libraries, the Scottish Education Department and The Collection, Bermuda, under the Patronship of HRH the Prince of Wales. The Bank of Scotland, Coutts Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland have all acquired several paintings for their permanent public collections. Mike Healey works from a studio in Argyllshire and until a few years ago in Lincolnshire.

Mike Healey studied under John Cunningham both at school and at Glasgow School of Art, winning the Haldane Drawing Prize and the Leverhulme Travelling Scholarship. He is an Associate of Glasgow School of Art. In the early 1980s he taught at the School of Art and worked there until 1997. Mike Healey was awarded the Chair of Professor of Art and Design at the University of Lincoln in 2003.
Publications

Bibliography: “Mike Healey” The Dictionary of Scottish Art, 1600 to the Present. Author Julian Halsby and Paul Harris. Publisher: Birlinn ISBN: 9781841588827. “Mike Healey” The Artist Magazine has twice featured the artist’s work as a professional master class.