“Kleopatra” 24×36 inches, Victorian Framing, Media: Graphite, Color pencil & Charcoal. Previously sold in 2018 for $2,500

“Nubia, The Water Bearer” 22×28 inches, Graphite & Acrylic paint on 400 series Strathmore paper. Previously sold in 2018.

“It Takes a Village” 22×30 inch Graphite & Acrylic portrait of West African village girl. Previously sold in 2017.

“Statuesque One” 36x48 inches, Acrylic paint on stretched canvas, $2500

This is a portrait I painted of a Himba woman. It’s a remake from 2015. The Himba are indigenous peoples living in Northern Nambia. Himba people, especially women, are remarkably famous for covering themselves with otjize paste, a cosmetic mixture of butterfat and ochre pigment, to cleanse the skin over long periods due to water scarcity and protect themselves from the extremely hot and dry climate of the Kaokoland as well as insect bites. The cosmetic mixture, often perfumed with the aromatic resin of the omuzumba shrub, gives their skin and hair plaits a distinctive orange or red-tinge characteristic, as well as texture and style. Otjize is considered foremost a highly desirable aesthetic beauty cosmetic, symbolizing earth's rich red color and blood the essence of life, and is consistent with the OvaHimba ideal of beauty.

“Hammer Girl” 30x40 inches, acrylic paint, $2200

The Hamar are an Omotic community inhabiting southwestern Ethiopia. They live in Hamer woreda (or district), a fertile part of the Omo River valley, in the Debub Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region (SNNPR). They are largely pastoralists, so their culture places a high value on cattle.

The Hamar are known for their unique custom of "bull jumping," which initiates a boy into manhood. First, female relatives dance and invite whipping from men who have recently been initiated; this shows their support of the initiate, and their scars give them a say on who they marry.