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3. Kumasi, 2025 - In my Father's Country

The Cathedral of the Metal Mountains A thousand miles inside the earth, a cave hollows with walls of shining cold gold metal bonded with rock. For a thousand years the scaffolding under the earth grew, twisted and turned into a high cathedral of boulders. Icicles of minerals rise up from the nave as a congregation at liturgy. The tall walls converge into a craggy dome above the cavern of a…

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2. Kakum, 2025 - In My Father's Country

IKakum National Park is a rainforest on the coast of southern Ghana rich in fauna and flora. The famous canopy walk is a view above the rainforest. You can see the point sun sets in the sky and where the sky touches the treetops. You look down into the deep ocean of trees. The trunks plunge into the darkness. Wild cocoa grows randomly. On the canopy walk, the birds are beneath you. You hover over…

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1. Ada, 2024 - In My Father's Country

Ada Foah is a town on the southeast coast of Ghana. A tropical, sandy riverfront beach area where the Volta meets the Atlantic. When I visited, I was blinded by the bright, white light that baked the sand and reflected off the water. It was a type of white light I had never encountered anywhere else. The sand is pale. The shadows are sharp. Tall palm trees challenge the river all along the…

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All the Beauty in the World - It's a Wrap!

It’s a wrap. One year in the making. The “All the Beauty in the World” series has come to an end. Which beauty is your favorite?

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11. The Stars, the Moon,  They have all been Blown Out (Cosmos)

In the end, the sun has extinguished into smoke and the moon glows with embers. The stars shimmer loosely in nebulas of radiance. A woman falls from Mars onto the remnants of the earth. She wanders alone in lawless physics. She breathes in a windless space. She beholds in awe the weird landscape that envelopes the earth. Everyone is gone. And when she speaks to heaven, there is no one else on…

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10. A Constellation of Ice, (Arctic)

“Lips ripe as the berries in JuneRed the rose, red the roseSkin pale as the light of the moonGently as she goes.Eyes blue as the sea and the skyWater flows, water flowsHeart burning like fire in the nightGently as she goes.” Queen Wealhtheow’s Song from Beowulf (2007)

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9. A Nubian Harvest, 2024 (Sahel)

This is my desert. My Arrakis. My Dune. The Baron – Dune A handful of Sahelian sand whispers through fingers on arid days made of pure sunlight. The hum of dust sighing into the breeze, swaying the stalks of an African harvest. A portrait of sunflowers. A breadbasket of seeds and nuts. The character of maize and beans. A woman draped in cherries and wine.

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8. She is like the brightness after rain that brings forth Flowers from the earth (England), 2023

“The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; his word was on my tongue. The God of Israel spoke, the Rock of Israel said to me: When one rules over men in righteousness, when he rules in the fear of God, he is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings the grass from the earth.��� 2 Samuel 23 All the Beauty in the World #8: She is like the…

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7. A Savage Collision, (New York Highrise) 2023

All the Beauty in the World #7 : A Savage Collision, (New York Highrise) 2023, acrylic on canvas, 90x90cm It’s another day for you, you and me in paradise Another Day in Paradise by Phil Collins This painting is an state of mind. A woman stands calmly before a force of collision. Grace beside Sinew. Serenity beside Intensity. Feminine beside Masculine. A corporate jungle. Penthouses of glass…

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6. Hers will be the Song of Aqua Marine, Tangerine Dreams (Mediterranean), 2023

“Sing, goddess, the anger of Achilles, son of Peleus, destructive as it was” The first line of the Illiad by Homer A whole goddess of a woman living in an Elysium on earth. A seascape of electric blue for all the heroes sailing to find her. The salt of sea spray, the brine of olives, the citrus of lemon, the bruises on figs. Fruits and flowers in fresh Water. The envy of the gods. The…

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5. Imperial Deliriums in the Glow of Evening, (Far East Asia) 2023

“A world of tigers and dragons, full of corruption.” – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) At the base layer of this canvas, orange, yellow and Venice Red swirled together as if from the core of an atomic explosion. In that entropy of paint, dragons slithered forth. Imagine a smoke filled candlelit room filled with addictive illusions of dark red, cruel purple and white orchids. Recline on a…

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4. Arcadia of the Cold Desert (Southern California), 2023

My baby lives in shades of blueBlue eyes and jazz and attitudeHe lives in California tooHe drives a Chevy Malibu Shades of Cool by Lana del Rey All the Beauty in the World #4- Palm Springs, California Last year I sold a painting called “Our Lady of the Cactus”. It was a turquoise piece with an African lady sitting against a sky of cacti. She currently lives on a ranch in South Africa. I love…

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3. Tropic of Everlasting Summer, Hour of Gold, Nectar of God (Jamaica), 2023

Walk in your rainbow paradiseStrawberry lipstick state of mind Brown skin and lemon over iceWould you believe it? Oh honey Adore You by Harry Styles All the Beauty in the World #3 – Tropic of Endless Summer, Hour of Gold, Nectar of God Jamaica and Ghana share the same tropical savannah climate, and, with our year long warmth, we are the Gardens of Eden that never fell. This painting should…

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2. I Tell You All the Time, Heaven is a Place on Earth with You (France), 2023

It’s you, it’s you, it’s all for youEverything I doI tell you all the timeHeaven is a place on earth with you Video Games, Lana del Rey All the Beauty in the World #2 – France In my dreams, I saw an imperial marble palace somewhere in France or Italy. A woman dressed in long green taffeta walked across from me and disappeared but I don’t know who she is. During my year in Paris, I soaked in…

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1. In the Throes of Increasing Wonder (New Orleans), 2023

And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. John 1:5 All the Beauty in the World #1 – New Orleans, Louisiana The closest I have ever been to New Orleans was my Bates College Winter Gala. However Anne Rice’s book, “Interview with the Vampire”, has already taken me through the ghostly oak tree lined streets of Louisiana, the foggy blue-green bayous and tall town…

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"All The Beauty in the World" Era

After finishing the Dutch Gold Coast Series, I am entering a new era by travelling around the world from one beautiful setting to another in celebration of God’s diverse earth and the women who live there. This is inspired by my own globe trotting in the past.

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Yellow Sticky Note Supremacy