Michael Sieve grew up in small-town Minnesota in a farming family. Although he gained much experience hunting and studying the wildlife that would eventually become the subjects of his wildlife artwork, he taught himself to draw and had no formal art education until college.

In college, he intended to study advertising, but when he realized this wasn't his passion, he decided to study art and earned a degree in studio art from Southwest Minnesota State College. After working non-art jobs and moonlighting as a painter for many years, he finally became a professional artist and continues to paint professionally today.

The multicontinental wildlife subjects of Michael Sieve's artwork range from whitetails in woods to stone sheep on mountain peaks to elephants on the African plain. Intense realism and a masterful skill for capturing unique lighting add to Sieve's reputation as one of the world's premier contemporary wildlife artists.