INTRO (10 images)

Slideshow
  • 'Veiled' 14" x 18" oil on canvas, 2006 I find the image of veiled women very intriguing. The fact that a woman can reveal only a small part of her facial characteristics and yet show so much from that which you can see and even that which is left to the imagination under the cover of the veil. Now in a world where just the appearance of veiled woman, in the minds of the media manipulated majority, invokes fear, I just want people to see the intriguing beauty and cultural respect that the veiled woman in the painting represents

  • 'Peaceful Persisence' 30"x15" oil on canvas 2008

  • 'Beauty without falsness' 40"x30" oil on canvas 2003 The little girl in this painting comes form a county where makeup, designer dresses, wigs and two hour makeovers could never compare to her true and natural beauty that she displays in her humble home.

  • 'In the Middle' 30" x 40" oil on canvas, 2011 In late 2009 I listened to a radio conversation that, for me, was difficult to sit through yet painfully eye opening. The topic, "Rape and Brutality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo." As I listened the point that kept standing out the most was, that without addressing what happens to the children of the violent actions perpetrated upon women in the Congo that, it is often these children born of brutality which eventually become the soldiers that created the conditions that continue the circle of violence that brought about their existence in the first place. In the middle of this painting you may see simply a small newborn drapped in a flag or you may realize that as uncomfortable as it is to accept, you could be viewing the never ending circle of violence.





  • 'Roy Tribal Warrior' charcoal on paper 12'x 17' 2006

  • 'Kibwezi man' charcoal on paper 12'x 17' 2006