Michael Denering is a native born Southern Californian. Son of a Dutch father and an Italian mother.  Lived in the N. Hollywood area in an Italian community. Many of the neighbors came from the same area and  the same village in the Abruzzi mountains in Italy. All the children grew up with the stories of the old country and the traditions

that were brought from there villages. When Michael  started his artistic career he painted outdoors and spent time in the local  mountains painting. He traveled to Italy to follow the roots of his grandparents. Spent time in Rome and Florence sketching

and phographing images for paintings. He traveled to the small ancestral village of Lettopalena high in the Abruzzi region. A medieval village that hasn’t changed much since the early 11 hundreds. He was greated with love and kindness as  a returning son from a distant land. There he sketched and did color studies for future paintings with the promise to someday return to continue painting the village landscape.

Returning home to California he paints the local landscape while he plans his return to the little village were he found his heart and soul.

For 30 years he has worked for the motion picture industry as a Scenic Artist and paints murals and Backdrops for famous movie productions. Some of the films have been: Ghostbusters I & II, Die Hard I & II, Lethal Weapons I & II, Charlie Angels I & II, Dracula, Batman, The Green Mile, Jurassic Park, Spiderman and several 100 more.

 He is a member of the Art Directors Guild and serves on there board of directors. He has also painted backdrops for the Dorothy Chandler and the Mark Tapper Forum. Murals for Las Vegas, Atlantic city, Disney Studios, Epcot Center, Sony Studios, Paramont Studios, Warner Bros. Studios and Universal Studios.