Mike Tingle lives in Newton Abbot, Devon, where he works from his garage/printmaking studio. He attended Torquay Art School and made his first etching in 1971.

At Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, 1973-76, he gained a BA in fine art. From 1983 to 94, he was a member of the Gainsborough's House Print workshop, Sudbury, Suffolk, where he concentrated on copperplate etching. After moving back to Devon in 1995 he joined the Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, (now Make southwest). His work is in private collections and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum, New York, (under Michael Tingle), and the Met Office, Exeter.

He has experimented with many printmaking methods including, embossing, monoprint, lino, and digital, but he has always kept fine-line etching as his foundation. A new feature of his work is the box assemblage print, where various prints are cut and constructed together within the miniature theatre of a box frame.