Michel Streich started his artistic career in his native Germany. He worked as a freelance illustrator in London for several years, finally basing himself in Australia in 2000. Michel works mainly as an editorial and book illustrator. Hundreds of his drawings have featured in numerous German school books, and his work has been published in newspapers and magazines such as The Times, The Financial Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and the Financial Review, Australian Gourmet Traveller, GQ Magazine, The Big Issue and many others. Michel lives in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.