Both her parents are deceased but were well-known Warlpiri artists. She has one brother and one sister. She is also kin to Joy Nangala Brown, also a major Warlpiri artist. Flora grew up in Yuendumu and went to the local school. She married Marshall Poulson, they have four children and lots of grandchildren. She now lives in Nyirripi, a remote aboriginal community 130 km west of Yuendumu.

 She began painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation in 2017. She paints her mother’s Mina Mina Jukurrpa (Mina Mina Dreaming – Ngalyipi) – a very important women’s dreaming site west of Yuendumu and Nyirripi, near Lake Mackay and the WA border. These stories have been passed down to her by her mother and her mother’s mother before her for millennia. “I love my Mina Mina story.”