Michelle is influenced and inspired by her physical environment, and this reveals itself in an abstract way within her work. The urban and domestic landscape, and more recently, natural forms both appear in her work and provide inspiration. The chemical process of the discharge method can produce unexpected results, which is a nice contrast to the certainty of printing with pigments and dyes alone. Michelle enjoys the physicality of printing - the mixing of colours and the appearance of the image when the screen is lifted from the print table - all these contribute to her enjoyment of print over any other medium. Finished work often includes abrupt transitions between materials of contrasting textures, to create boundaries across which some graphic elements will flow and into which some will collide, allowing surface to play as much of a role in the finished piece as image and the print process itself.