Flora’s main medium is metal. It is man-made as well as natural. It is her canvas. Like a Zen alchemist, she works the surface, creating patinas through the application of an eclectic mix of chemicals and compounds to copper, brass, aluminum and steel. Through multiple applications she strives to achieve an amazing range of patterns, textures and colors. These are then cut up and applied to geometric box shapes or bent and shaped into non representational wall sculptures. Flora completed her MFA in 1990. As a result of this program she began to incorporate her interest in Buddhism with her art. One teaching of the Buddha that she uses for inspiration is the understanding of impermanence— fleeting nature of time—which is reflected in the spontaneous nature of her art. Flora’s work has been exhibited in both solo and group shows in numerous galleries in the Bay Area and New York. Her work has been published in two nationally juried publications: Open Studio Press and, American Art Collector. 

Spring 2011. Juror’s Choice Award, 1st place, sculpture, at the ArtSpan Benefit Show & Auction.

Winter 2010. Flora was one of twenty artists chosen for ArtSpan’s biennial juried exhibition, Selections, shown at California Modern Gallery in SF.

Spring 2009. Flora spent 14 days on a solo retreat at the Morris Graves Foundation in Loleta, California.

Flora has studied at the School of Visual Art in NYC, has a Masters of Painting with Summit University and took classes with master artist/teacher Elaine Badgley Arnoux of San Francisco. She taught at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.