R. Michael Wommack graduated cum laude from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1978. Since that time he has worked on his own and with other organizations in various artistic endeavors. Early in his career he painted hundreds of airbrush murals, on walls and vehicles, culminating with a series of large murals commissioned by the U. S. Government, averaging in size at 15 by 60 feet. The murals covered a wide range of subject material; some of them are whimsical, a few are silly, others are serious.

In 1983 he began assisting internationally known architect Robert Venturi, airbrushing special furniture prototypes for Knoll International. This led to painting wall graphics in many Venturi designed buildings, including the National Gallery Wing in London, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Children’s Museum in Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, as well as several new buildings on the Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania campuses. For the past eight years he has also worked on drawings for upcoming projects, such as the new Philadelphia Orchestra Hall, the Nikko Kirfuri resort complex in Japan and several projects for Disney. The most recent projects include large murals for the New Jersey State Aquarium and a muralized send up of an "A" Frame house on Mount Desert Island in Maine.

For the past 17 years Michael’s work has taken two forms, one involving oil painting on canvas, the other being a type of printmaking called "Chine Colle" , a process combing etchings and collage. The paintings are contemplative landscapes usually with an architectural element in them. They are studies of light and shadow, of "the spaces between cars". They are meant to be meditations on the relationship between outside and inside, light and dark, domicile and untamed, the inherent dichotomy found in most things.

The chine colles are related to the paintings in that these one -of-a-kind prints are evocative of landscape and architecture, but with the surprise of found paper and fragments of photographs incorporated in them. The collage element makes them more abstract, and the prints address similar issues as the paintings, but they have become more intuitive and subjective. The fragments of texture and color, of things recognized and not, of surfaces shiny and dull, of atmosphere and density, combine to create a landscape that is real and imagined.

He has been in many one man and group shows in the Philadelphia area and has won several awards. Most recently he was included in the juried shows " Philadelphia Printmakers at City Hall" and the "Annual Award Exhibition" at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts outside Philadelphia. His work can be found in galleries in New York, Atlanta, and Nashville. Corporations collecting his work include the Sun Oil Company, Johnson and Johnson, Penn Mutual Insurance Company, Dow Chemical Company, the Mobil Oil Company and Letraset Incorporated.