Michael Wilson refers to himself as an artist teacher. He works as an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) facilitator and has had a continuous studio practice ever since graduating with a BA Fine Art at Wits University run concurrently and interweaving with his practice in the classroom. These practices are not parallel, they move towards and away from each other, at times completely merging, though never exceeding the other. Never becoming the other. Wilson is energised by the task of solving the problems that are unique to his classroom, and his studio, and it is in this problem solving that he hopes to produce experiences in those who interact with the outcomes of his practice – the practice being the processes that happen in advance of the encounter with an audience or participant. The practice is the preparation of a painting, of a class, of a workshop, and very often it is not easy to follow the line back to where the practice begins and ends. Wilson takes as a core idea in his art, the idea that his task is to produce independence in his students. This can be extended to the paintings, in that the paintings should produce, cannot avoid producing, an independent thought and action. A thought that moves one from believing one thing to be true (or not knowing something to be true), to knowing a new truth. Great artists expand possibilities for their viewer, frees them from hidden assumptions. This is central to his expanding practice.