24"x24", Mixed Media Painting, $800. "What's Past is Prologue" is the first chapter- an introduction- to the life that this couple will soon embark upon.

"The title "What's Past is Prologue" is from Shakespeare's play "The Tempest". " Sir Walter Raleigh had in fact named one of the new world colonies "Virginia" after his monarch’s chastity. King James arranged political marriages for his grandchildren. Prospero, feels the need to teach Miranda the "value of chastity", a primary lesson being taught by the masque along with having a happy marriage."

30x24 , mixed media painting on canvas $685.

Mixed Media Acrylic Painting on Canvas, 24" x 24", $500.This mixed media painting on canvas is about meeting the opposite sex, flirting,relationships. We project what we want others to see - not always the way we see ourselves.

24" x 30"m,, mixed media painting, $645.

Mixed Media Painting, 25 x 30", $790." A Walk in the Park" celebrates the everyday life of a dog ...stopping to smell the flowers.

Mixed media Acrylic Painting, 30 x 40, $2500.

2019, Mixed media on Canvas, 30 x 40 $1365.
He's so fine...wanna make him mine. I created this mixed media painting on canvas, using segments of my original photographs, cut paper, fabric to build on textures to create expressive unique figures.

I have incorporated photographs, cut paper, silk, mica pastels and rock crystal and acrylic paint. It is mounted on a 30 x 40" canvas.
My collage work is inspired by Romare Bearden.

Mixed Media Painting, 30 x 24, $695. The Threads That Bind Us"is a figurative piece is about relationships. Uniting with a soulmate makes us whole. The purity and ease with which we are one with each other. How we can finish each others sentences, know what the other is thinking. When we finally find each other we are complete.

30"x40", $755 , "Forever, Your Heart and My Heart are Very Old Friends" Mixed Media painting on canvas about the love between a couple. Words tumble from their mouths questioning their love and commitment. She's got a hold on him while he looks away...

Mixed Media Painting, 2019, 24" x 24"
"Now is the Time" is a statement about growing up in a patriarchal society, how men try to subvert women when they speak up for equal rights.
I am inspired by Michelle Obama's autobiography, climbing the ladder of success as an African American woman. Women and girls of all races have been fighting for equal opportunities in the world for centuries, somehow we seem to be going backwards. (the cutout fabric border is filled with portraits of women and girls-some known, some not.)
Notes on what the mixed media painting is made up from:
*The 2 pages are from Robert Johnson's book "She", from the series "He", "She", "We" about how the we relate to eachother - highly recommended reading. The vintage (1925) cutout girl and man are from child's cut paper doll page - I have owned for since I was a teenager.
Dictionary page from a 1909 Webster International Dictionary.