Mike Larsen

A student of history, Mike Larsen researches the past events of the subjects he paints and sculpts. As an ongoing student of art, he is influenced by the beauty of the world around him. He has been a professional artist for 50 years. Mike likes to think of his sculpture as three-dimensional painting. He leaves the marks left by his fingers in the clay as he does the brushstrokes he leaves on the canvas in his paintings, believing that shows most effectively the emotion of the painting or sculpture.

He is known for his very large paintings, and also for one very tiny one – the U.S. postage stamp commemorating the Oklahoma Centennial in 2007.