Expressionist and Baroque | Laura Marjorie Miller

• Iris Fulva

  Acrylic, Canvas, 10" x 8". Iris fulva is our Copper Iris, family Iridaceae, native to the wetlands of Southern Illinois and further south in the US :) This is the first painting I have completed in my new studio so I po…

• Herrin Circus

  Acrylic, Canvas, 24 inches x 24 inches x 1.5 inches. Herrin Circus is a tribute to a circus that used to exist in the 1920s, in my hometown of Herrin, Illinois. If you know the town, the circus was located at the site o…

• She Could Have Kicked the Moon

  Acrylic, Canvas, 36" x 36" x 1.5". She Could Have Kicked the Moon is an interpretation of the mural described in Tom Robbins's Skinny Legs and All, in the section of the novel 'The Seventh Veil,' when formerly blocked p…

• Pink Mary

  Acrylic, Canvas, 30" x 30" x 1.5". Pink Mary aka Mary and the Snake is my first painting to have been purchased! She was created for a benefit auction held in tandem with the Stage Company's production of The Vagina Mon…

• Pelican Wing

  Acrylic, Canvas, 14" x 18" x 1". While volunteering at the local wildlife rehabilitation center, I became friends with an American White Pelican with a crippled right wing who was sojourning there. He is a being as colo…

• Future Wolf

  Acrylic, Canvas, 20" x 20" x 1 1/2". Future Wolf was inspired by a trip to Devon I took in 2024 for a rewilding conference about the possibility of reintroduction of wolves to the landmass of Great Britain. I actually p…

• Flora and the Bumblebee

  Acrylic, Canvas, 24" x 24" x 1 1/2". My family participates in a citizen-science survey, the Missouri Bumblebee Atlas run by the Xerces Society, across the Mississippi River at the Cape Girardeau Conservation Center. Th…

• Channeling Shakespeare

  Acrylic, Canvas, 18" x 24" x 1". When I returned from Shakespeare Summer School at RADA, I hadn't painted in five weeks. My visual art practice had been to do studies of tabby cat markings of my friends at the animal sh…

• Hermione and the Bear

  Acrylic, Canvas, 20" x 24" x 1". Going deep into study of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale for a play proposal, I had the notion of the way I'd like to stage it—with the actress playing Hermione to also play the Bear, cl…

• Mississippi Matangi and the Carolina Parakeet

  Acrylic, Canvas, 24" x 20" x 1". I created Mississippi Matangi and the Carolina Parakeet for a contest that had a climate emergency prize, which I didn't win. But I love this painting. I'd learnt that there is a Hindu g…