Miranda Boulton (b. 1973) is a contemporary British painter who lives in Cambridge with a studio in London. Boulton’s practice explores ideas around memory and time. Her work is questioning what it means to be a woman artist and feminist exploring floral painting. Challenging conventional perceptions of flowers, her paintings resist the delicacy traditionally associated with flower painting, they are not fragile, but confrontational, in a state of becoming, their surfaces registering both vitality and decay. Her gestural brushwork evokes the cellular energy of plantlife, cyclical processes of growth, transformation and dissolution.
Boulton paints from memories of her extensive research of the floral still life genre, recollections emerge, overlap and recede in the process of painting. She combines the traditions of Still Life painting and Abstraction within her mix of vigorous and delicate marks. Her rich, colourful, impasto oil paintings are expressively redefining contemporary floral painting.
Boulton studied Art History at Sheffield Hallam University and at Turps Banana Art School in London. Her work has been shown internationally at Nada Miami (December, 2025) with Patricia Fleming Gallery and at Expo Chicago (2023) with Cynthia Corbett Gallery. Selected group shows include Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2016 & 2019), ING Discerning Eye (2019 & 2021) and ‘Staged Nature’, Glyndebourne (2023).
In 2021 she won the Jacksons Painting Prize. Solo exhibitions include ‘Ghosts and Flowers’ with Cynthia Corbett Gallery in London (2024). Her first solo Museum exhibition ‘Chain of Flowers’ is currently on at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery from May 16th to 6th December 2026.
She is a member of Contemporary British Painting and has paintings in many private collections in UK, Europe and USA.
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Graham Crowley talks about ‘Night Echoes II’.
‘Silent Disco 25’, curated by Graham Crowley, July 25.