Collection: Michel Poort | Visual artist and 'Heart Maker'

Michel Poort (1960) can be found in his studio for about sixty hours a week. Here he makes his hearts with all kinds of materials; wood, metal, clay, paper, resin, wax. Images that are then photographed and printed on metal and find their way to enthusiasts at home and abroad.

Michel: “ I am – literally and figuratively – a heart maker who wants to make the world beat again .”

Michel reached a low point in 2015. He lost his love, his money and his passion for art. Or as he describes it himself, 'he was done with life'. A chance encounter in the jungle of Bali changes everything. After months of self-examination, he returns home with only one heart's desire: to make the world beat again. Since then, Michel has dedicated his art to the heart, a passion in a multitude of colours, materials and dimensions. He puts it this way:

“I'm not saying that I gave my life to art
I prefer to say that the heart gave me back my life

Michel Poort was born in Hilversum and after high school he studied for a few years at Artibus in Utrecht and later at the Ruud Wacker Academy. Poort works in Utrecht and his hearts 'beat' all over the world.