The Engagement (Money Tree still life) Painting

Miranda Girard is an exhibiting and commissioned Boston artist. Her often figurative, representational paintings and drawings are motivated by expression, emotion and environment. She graduated summa cum laude from Maryland Institute College of Art with a Bachelor’s Degree in General Fine Arts and a minor in Creative Writing, and received an MFA in Visual Arts, with high honors, from Western Connecticut State University. Miranda also attended workshops at Studio Escalier, a contemporary classical art center in Argenton-Chateau, France; Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts; Silvermine Art Center; Sacred Heart University; The Art Students League; and Zoll School of Fine Art. She has studied with Sangram Majumdar, Carl Plansky, Palden Hamilton, David Kassan, Barry Nemett, Timothy Stotz, N. Michelle Tully and others. She is a member of the Salmagundi Club in New York City. Select awards include the W. B. Connor Trust, the Connecticut University Grant, Studio Escalier Waterway Fellowship, Maryland Institute College of Art Trustee Scholarship and Trumbull, Connecticut’s Artist of the Year. Her works are in private collections in the United States and Europe. Artist Statement: "For me, a painting is a visual poem. The narrative use of subtle cues of color, texture, and composition present a familiar person, place or object in a fresh way, allowing the viewer to pause, dream, reflect. Perhaps memories awaken and senses stir. Perhaps, if only for a moment, as the viewer ‘reads’ the painting, present time succumbs to imagination and reverie."