Last photo shows the artist at his table Approximately: Framed - 22x 17 inch. Painting - 20 x 15 inch Michael Dormer or Michael Henry Dashwood Dormer (Hollywood, California, 1935 - 2012) was an American visual artist, writer, lyricist, entrepreneur and creator of the 1960s T.V. show Shrimpenstein. In 1957 Dormer established a painting studio in La Jolla and moonlighted as a night-club comic and jazz poet at the Pour House, a cabaret in Bird Rock. He also published a painting and poetry magazine titled Scavenger. Michael Dormer died at home in Ocean Beach, San Diego, California on 10 September 2012.