Artiste peintre, scénographe, Docteur en arts et sciences d e l'art de l'université de la Sorbonne à Paris, Maître de conférence honoraire, Michel Suret-Canale a réalisé de très nombreuses expositions en France et à l'étranger. Il a bénéficié d'achat et de commandes publiques (Ville de Lisse, Collège St André de Niort, Musée de Niort...) et publié de nombreux ouvrages, dont un cédérom sur le dessin d'après modèle vivant, un livre sur l'aquarelle et un sur la peinture à l'huile.

In 1927 Paris, engraver and medal designer Victor Suret-Canale built "la maison Canale" at 3, rue des arts, a neighborhood known for its artistic residents including the renowned sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, Meichaninof and, for a time, Chagal. Both Suret-Canale, who'd studied at l' École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, and his wife Thérèse, a painter educated first in Germany and then in Paris at the Académie Julian, were no exception. The couple had two children, Charlotte and Jean, and it was here that Jean's son, Michel Suret-Canale, was born. La maison Canale was a fertile environment for both the imagination and the intellect. Michel's father Jean was a university professor and widely published author of African history, specializing in the colonization of Black Africa. His mother Georgette was a feminist journalist, novelist and published poet. Their children inherited the grandparents' artistic talent while Jean and Georgette instilled in their offspring a lifelong belief in democracy, freedom and equality.