Michael Flahault

Michael was born in Montreal, and was raised in almost equal parts in Montreal, Paris and London. His education includes a post-graduate degree in International Relations from McGill University.

His art is self-taught - as self taught as you can be with the help of many established and accomplished friends.

He has won over a dozen awards at international Aviation Art exhibitions, including a Best of Show at the SimuFlite "Horizons of Flight" exhibition in 1998 (as well as two Awards of Merit, making him fortunate to be the first artist to win three awards at a single show). However, as a general lover of art, he has an equal fascination with all forms and subjects, portraits being among his favorite. In recent years, most painting has been of the plein-aire landscape type.

He works equally well in oils, oil glaze and watercolour.

Among his past clients are the Canada Aviation Museum, Canadian Forces Museum of Aerospace Defence, the O'Keefe family, hockey legend Guy Lafleur, Bell Helicopter, Execair Inc. (Innotech), SimuFlite, CAE (before CAE and SimuFlite merged), the Canadian Business Aircraft Association, as well as many other individuals and private collections, as far away as Australia.

In 2001, in conjunction with General Maurice Baril, then Chief of Staff of the Canadian Armed Forces, he wrote the proposal for a program which has become the Canadian Forces Artists Program ( Canadian Forces Artist Project (CFAP) ). Artists, sponsored by the Armed Forces, are given responsible assignments to portray the Canadian Armed Forces in all its roles, going worldwide to do so. In exchange, the artists donate works back to the Armed Forces. In 2004-2005, Michael  served as the representative artist on the Selection Advisory Committee ( CFAP Advisory Committee ), along with representatives from the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian War Museum, the Canada Council for the Arts, the History and Heritage department of the Armed Forces, the National Library of Canada, and the Senate.

Michael resides in Kingston, Ontario. More

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