Biography - Michael H. Cranford - Born 1964 - Still a child. Costa Rica artist, painting surrealistic paintings of hope and fate, realism and abstract. Here you'll find a few wildlife and environmental paintings, I try to convey messages of responsibility, preservation and conservation in many of my paintings. Much of my surreal art and paintings are very political. I raised two boys, lived in Colorado most of my adult life and now I live in the rainforest in Southern Costa Rica. I also rent a studio in Cape Cod Massachusetts, on The lower...more