Title: Woman with Aura of the Gods.
Medium: Oil and Acrylic on Canvas. 40” x 30”
“Now you understand just why my head’s not bowed.
I don’t shout or jump about or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing, it ought to make you proud.
I say, it’s in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, the need for my care.
’Cause I’m a woman. Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, that’s me.”
Phenomenal Woman (excerpt). By Maya Angelou.
Title: Solace.
Medium: Oil and Acrylic on Canvas. 36” x 36”
“Early in the morning
It's the dawn of a new day
New hopes new dreams new ways
I open up my heart and
I'm gonna do my part and
Make this a positively beautiful day.”
A Beautiful Day (Excerpt). By India.Arie.
Title: Dali Revisited.
Medium: Oil and Acrylic on Canvas. 36” x 48”
“I am not yet born;
Provide me with water to dandle me, grass to grow for me,
Trees to talk to me, sky to sing to me,
Birds and a white light in the back of my mind to guide me.”
Prayer Before Birth (Excerpt). By Louis MacNeice.
Title: Jezebel - Chapter 1.
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas. 20” x 16”
“Jezebel,
Wasn't born with a silver spoon in her mouth.
She probably had less than every one of us.
But when she knew how to walk,
She knew how to bring the house down.
Can't blame her for her beauty she wins with her hands down.”
Jezebel (Excerpt). By Sade.
Title: Jezebel - Chapter 2.
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas. 20” x 16”
“Jezebel,
Wasn't born with a silver spoon in her mouth.
She probably had less than every one of us.
But when she knew how to walk,
She knew how to bring the house down.
Can't blame her for her beauty she wins with her hands down.”
Jezebel (Excerpt). By Sade.
Title: Jezebel - Chapter 3.
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas. 20” x 16”
“Jezebel,
Wasn't born with a silver spoon in her mouth.
She probably had less than every one of us.
But when she knew how to walk,
She knew how to bring the house down.
Can't blame her for her beauty she wins with her hands down.”
Jezebel (Excerpt). By Sade.
Bounty: Still Life with Breadfruit.
Acrylic on Canvas. 16” x 20”.
“So hold your head high
You children of ‘the land of wood and water’.
And bear your flag above your head and your culture across your chest.
Never unroot your feet from your heritage.
Even when planted upon foreign soil.”
Despite What They Call Us (Excerpt). By Vanessa Chambers.
Bounty: Still Life with Guinep.
Acrylic on Canvas. 18" x 24".
“Our mothers have a thing about guinep:
Mind you don’t eat guinep in your good clothes. It will stain them.
Mind you don’t climb guinep tree. You will fall.
Mind you don’t swallow guinep seed. It will grow inside you.
Our mothers have a thing about guinep:
They’re secretly consuming it.”
Guinep. By Olive Senior.
Bitter Earth.
Acrylic on Canvas. 18” x 24”.
“This bitter earth.
Well, what a fruit it bears.”
This Bitter Earth (as sung by Dinah Washington).
Yellow Haze.
Acrylic on Canvas. 18” x 24”.
“To fling my arms wide in some place of the sun,
To whirl and to dance till the white day is done.
Then rest at cool evening beneath a tall tree
While night comes on gently,
Dark like me—
That is my dream!”
Dream Variations (Excerpt). By Langston Hughes.
Crimson Haze.
Acrylic on Canvas. 18” x 24”.
“To fling my arms wide in some place of the sun,
To whirl and to dance till the white day is done.
Then rest at cool evening beneath a tall tree
While night comes on gently,
Dark like me—
That is my dream!”
Dream Variations (Excerpt). By Langston Hughes.