"Flowers of Ukraine"

Lana Miro

18 X 24

Oil on canvas

Gallery commission donated to charity

Artist Bio:

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Lana was born twenty miles from the Russian border in in Kharkiv, Ukraine, where her father was serving in the USSR military as a medical doctor. Over the next fourteen years she lived in Siberia, and other challenging locations due to her father's occupation. After returning to Ukraine and finishing middle school Lana was able to pursue her artistic passion at Art College and Art and Design Academia in Kharkiv. She received her credentials as an art teacher and a later master's degree in Art and Advertising. She will finish her doctorate as an art critic in December. Lana developed an art focused preschool/kindergarten program that was thriving in Kharkiv before the start of the war.

On February 24th at 5am Alex, Lana and their four children were forced to leave their home in Kharkiv, Ukraine when three rockets landed very near their home, one shook all the pictures off their wall. Wearing pajamas, they piled the kids in their car and drove 30 hours to get to Kremchuk, a trip that would normally take 1 ½ hours. Over the next 5 days they continued to flee to the west of Ukraine, normally a 15-hour journey. Following three months in Hungry and Italy they arrived in Utah on Memorial Day as part of the United with Ukraine humanitarian program.