Myrna Shoa studied painting at the Royal College of Art, London and has made art her way of life since that time, as a designer, painter and illustrator. For the last ten years she has been selling her art as greetings cards and prints. They are unlike any other cards you have seen. They are like visual poems; strong in colour and design, are works of art on a card or print. They appeal to people from different cultures and age groups

Myrna Shoa as well as being an artist is a storyteller with an unique insight into the secrets of the heart. Her paintings, cards and prints have delighted people of all ages and cultures. She is an experienced story teller and was a member of the College of Storytellers. But it is her mastery of colour that puts her designs into a different league from others. Her designs have a Paul Klee luminosity, with a Marc Chagall narrative content. Colour works on the physical and emotional level together in being able to convey an emotion.

Myrna Shoa taught painting, tone, composition and colour theory in colleges. 'My knowledge of colour enhances the emotional and visual impact of my work'. The themes are very appropriate for a 21^st century they are not sentimental much more reflective and deal with real issues. They sum up a range of emotions into a deceptively simple design. Myrna is able to condense intense human feelings revealing them in a pictorial form.

People ask her how she arrives at the designs. "I think in images,’ she explains. ‘When I experience something, I feel it and see it as a shape a colour an image. I quickly draw it, and that becomes my starting point. Then I may paint the original designs in whatever medium suits the emotion and design’. A recurring image is a little flower perched on the world. ‘We are like the little flower,’ explains Myrna, ‘ We we can die in a moment and yet we have the power to grow into a beautiful garden.
I often spend ages trying to get the images to feel right and then have the added problem of putting the right words on them as well.

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