Mick Fin found the beauty and serenity of painting and creating, as a small child growing up in rural Wisconsin, United States. She and her grandmother, her child-self painting mentor, share good, fun, artistic conversation still to this day. There will be no listing of Art schooling or degrees found in the Bio of Mick Fin. She has said the backdrop of creativity always existed in her mind, but that she did not begin painting until her mid-twenties.  The next question is often "why"? Mick Fin replies "I did not paint until my mid-twenties and the reason is as simple as it is complex. No one taught me the language or the rules of this big world of Art. As a kid I shared artistic times with my grandma, but there was very little conversation involved. I did a lot of watching-how she painted, how she felt when she painted, and how she felt after she painted. By age twenty I was searching for the right ways to live, having already faced so many tragedies of this sharp world, from the trenches of poverty and violence to the very edge of thought where suicide resides. I began painting in my mid-twenties in search of a place of peace in my own thoughts, where words just don't exist."

At age 35, Mick Fin lives between both La Crosse, Wisconsin, and Toronto, Ontario. She found herself with a plethora of work hidden and stacked neatly in one room. The pieces are abstract expressions of color and texture that enable the viewers to truly feel the work. Some series are figurative in their abstraction allowing the viewer to recognize the subject while adding to the feeling from their own experience. Other pieces are a complete abstraction based more on emotion than subject. The content of her work began with expression of self. The evolution of her work, while still emotion-based, now expresses the politics of this artist's life, not as individual, but in the context of community and the world. It is time to look through the abstract eyes of this self-taught artist Mick Fin.