Artist Michael Schofield was born in Orlando, Florida in 1947. In that same year, his family moved to Oakland, California where he grew up with dreams of playing pro baseball. In his sophomore year at Oakland High School, under the private tutelage of Jackie Jensen (brother of internationally recognized watercolorist Robert Jensen), He developed his skill in watercolor painting. For the next two years, Schofield says he: “squeezed endless tubes of paint...in his quest to master watercolor and get back to baseball.”

After graduation, Schofield attended the Harris School of Advertising Art in Nashville, Tennessee. He spent his summers in Woodstock, New York, studying with renown watercolorist John Pike, a contemporary of Robert Wood. 

Two years later, he opened his own studio in Tennessee, where he says he: “taught, painted, and starved.” In 1980, Schofield returned to California and established a silkscreen printing studio where he could create his own original serigraphs. 

The art of Michael Schofield enjoys a strong private and corporate collector base. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and seen on such popular motion picture films as The Bridges of Madison County, City Hall, Beethoven, and others. His art society memberships include The Tennessee Watercolor Society, and the National Society of Artists.