Flora


Miranda has always painted flowers.  The first flower painting she did was a present for her mother when Miranda was a tiny child.  She drew flowers in crayon on the dining room wall, and when her mother came around the corner and saw what she’d done, she had a fit.  Miranda was given a bucket, hot soapy water and a sponge to remove the offending drawing.  She cried her eyes out, because her mother didn’t understand the gift that this budding artist had given her.

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Zinnia 1
Dimensions: 4” x 4”
Year: 2015

Zinnia 2
Dimensions: 4” x 4”
Year: 2015

Zinnia 3
Dimensions: 4” x 4”
Year: 2015

Sunflower 1
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Year: 2022

Sunflower 2
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Year: 2022

Sunflower 3
Dimensions: 5” x 5”
Year: 2022

Sunflower 4
Dimensions: 5” x 5”
Year: 2022

Sunflower for Daddy
Dimensions: 9” x 9”
Year: 2014

Sunflower 6
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Year: 2022

Cabbage for John
Dimensions: 8” x 8”
Year: 2016

Iris for Carolyn
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Year: 2018

Poppy
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Year: 2015


During the pandemic Miranda contracted Covid-19 and almost died.  When she returned home from the hospital, the war in Ukraine had started.  She crawled out of bed and painted the sunflower series as a prayer for the Ukrainians - with their country’s symbol, the sunflowers, and the Ukrainian flag as the backgrounds.  She then had the images printed on fabric to make prayer flags.  50 sets were printed, which she sewed and mailed out to people, telling them that the flags were a gift, but that if the receiver of the flags would like to “pay it forward”, there was information with the flags about how to send money to World Central Kitchen who were on the ground feeding people who were trapped or were fleeing from the war.