Self-taught in art Michiel Schepers studied English literature in Leiden, and earned a doctorate in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachussetts, Amherst, with a dissertation on aphoristic brevity. He taught in St Louis, Missouri, and the University of Mauritius. At an early stage he switched to art.  Recently, he was artist-in-residence in the Tambopata region of the Peruvian Amazon, and at DUNAtelier, Katwijk.

Michiel Schepers has had exhibitions at various universities, Kunstzaal van Heijningen and Museum Panorama Mesdag in The Hague, Galerie Petit in Amsterdam, DUNAtelier Katwijk, and many other places. His work can be found in many collections on four continents. He is a member of several artist societies, among which Pulchri Studio in The Hague and the Dutch Watercolor Society (Hollandse Aquarellistenkring or HAK). 

His writings have appeared in magazines, as well as self-published books: 

   Under the Forest Canopy - Above the Forest Floor, observations. Trelex Residencies, Peru, 2015, also freely readable on-line  on ISSUU.

   Zowel-Als, 1 De Wereld Zien, 2 Boek van de Schildermotieven, 2016. This is a provisional manuscript edition still looking for a publisher, in which texts illustrate pictures, and both express a unique sense of the world. An English version is in progress.