Miranda Hatfield
Miranda Hatfield is a University of Kentucky art studio senior, officially graduating in May 2007. She began her academic artistic journey quite a few years ago as she was earning a living during the usual time of one’s college years. She has been a professional administrator at the University of Kentucky, among various other professional positions, but transcending into an artist is her passion.
Miranda has done a few painting commissions for portraits and corporate gifts. She discovered fiber art in early 2000 and then began to proceed into a more creative mixed media approach to art when she took her first photography class in the summer of 2007. She has begun uniting the two mediums that reflect objects and places that have been forgotten by humanity through Polaroid lifts, photo transfers, and other alternative processes on fibrous materials, as well as some striking interpretations of her environment as simply straight photography. The process of mixed media has propelled Miranda to new horizons in her artwork and to look beyond the ordinary.
Radiator Rose SOLD
Destruction and loss are the themes suggested for my recent artwork. It feels essential for me to regenerate these items or places that have been forgotten or destroyed by humanity’s decision to have larger and more modern, forgetting objects that are essential to an environment’s character. “Radiator Rose” builds on the theme of beautifying destruction and rehabilitating what was part of the past.