Butterfly Woman: Stories & Myths

Carla Vanessa of the Miami Sound Machine (produced by the Estefan's) wore my Butterfly Woman Pendant during a performance. Carla was a member of the group Bayside Boys in 1996, she sang the Macarena Song that was ..1 for 14 weeks in a row on the Billboard Charts.  She is a multi talented and very beautiful person on the inside and out.

Common Roots

"Flying Japanese Hats" 16"x 20" acrylic on canvas.

According to the Common Roots Arts Exhibit, "Plants are world travelers. They don't pay much attention to political borders, to language differences, to oceans and seas. Long before humans lived in our region, plants were taking cross-country and oceanic trips to other areas. And even today they quietly float and fly past border guards and tall border fences."

The plants pictured in the paintings are some of the plants we played with as kids in Jamaica. My mother's garden was well tended to and loved. In it we made bracelets from the Ixora plant and played with a fleet of "helicoptors" when we turned the Japanese Hat plant upside down and watched it spiral off in flight.

"Ixora's Charm" 16' x 20" acrylic on canvas.

Troubled Heart

"Troubled Heart" acrylic on canvas 12"x12". It troubles me how as people we can sometimes be. Pretending, presenting a well rehearsed performance. Deep inside is ugly veiled pain with gashes and keloids.

Traveling Thru Space & Time

"Space Time Travel" 22" x 28", oil on canvas. Click here for a historical list of Goddesses of Love, Sexuality and Fertility. This female archetype figure is ongoing and ever present in my work. An archetype in Jungian psychology is defined as a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc. universally present in individual psyches.