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Christel Michielsen
Portugal
Artist highlights
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic, Engraving on Wood
- Other details : Artwork on wood. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 35.4x27.6in
About this artwork
In this work, I wanted to capture the wisdom of trees — how they stand tall and strong, yet remain gently entwined with one another. Their true strength lies in non-resistance: the graceful bowing to strong winds rather than breaking against them. Their branches flow with the rhythm of the air, like a dance of joy. At the center, I placed a bright red flower, a symbol of vitality and beauty, glowing amidst the embrace of the trees. For me, it’s a…
celebration of connection, resilience, and the quiet joy of moving in harmony with nature.
Christel Michielsen
Portugal
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
A new chapter : From Crystal to Christel
For eight years in southern India, heat, colour and spirituality seeped into every mark I burned into wood. It was there I found my artistic voice, and became known as Crystal.
Returning to Europe, settling in the ancient Alentejo of Portugal, I return also to my birth name: Christel Michielsen.
The name has changed. The vision has not.
Where India gave me fire and spiritual intensity, the Alentejo, with its megalithic monuments, cork oaks and vast silent skies, speaks a different but equally profound mystical language. Both worlds now live within my paintings, pyrography on birch plywood, layered with acrylics, ink and bister, weaving symbolic narratives through the organic language of wood.
An invitation to journey beyond the ordinary into the sacred.
Christel Michielsen
Estremoz, Portugal — 2026
For eight years in southern India, heat, colour and spirituality seeped into every mark I burned into wood. It was there I found my artistic voice, and became known as Crystal.
Returning to Europe, settling in the ancient Alentejo of Portugal, I return also to my birth name: Christel Michielsen.
The name has changed. The vision has not.
Where India gave me fire and spiritual intensity, the Alentejo, with its megalithic monuments, cork oaks and vast silent skies, speaks a different but equally profound mystical language. Both worlds now live within my paintings, pyrography on birch plywood, layered with acrylics, ink and bister, weaving symbolic narratives through the organic language of wood.
An invitation to journey beyond the ordinary into the sacred.
Christel Michielsen
Estremoz, Portugal — 2026
