Yellow Hibiscus Poster

There are seven known species of hibiscus regarded as native to Hawaiʻi. The yellow hibiscus is Hawaii's state flower, also known as the pua aloalo. Hawaiians originally adopted the hibiscus flower (of all colors) as their official Territorial flower in the early 1920s. It wasn't until 1988, however, that Hawaii's legislature legally adopted the yellow hibiscus as the official state flower.
The hibiscus originated in Asia and the Pacific islands. It is believed that there were originally only seven hibiscus species native to the Hawaiian islands. Other varieties were imported, and growers began to develop unique hybrids to produce the variety of colors and sizes found today.
One of my favorite things to do living here on Maui is photograph the beautiful tropical flowers. It's not easy to capture one in total focus because of the constant trade winds that blow through the trees and bushes. This painting is from one of those photos. I played around with the composition until I fou...

Darice Machel McGuire lived on the beautiful Island of Maui from 2012 until the Lahaina fire on August 8th, 2023, destroyed her art studio. She and her husband have relocated to Grass Valley, California. They purchased a commercial building to reestablish their art studios. McGuire's Hawaii and California landscape oil and acrylic paintings are gracing the homes and offices of collectors nationally and internationally. McGuire's choice of subject matter comes from her love of nature and all that surrounds her on a daily basis. She paints in large and small formats. Three of the five galleries that represented her work were destroyed by the Lahaina fire. The two remaining galleries are Karen Lei's Gallery in Kahakuloa and Karen Lei's...