CAMELIA Original Oil Painting Bella Terra Watercolors and loving face that welcomes

and loving face that welcomes and comforts those who endure this journey

They’re painted on 48x48 inch cotton canvases that I texture myself with a heavy-bodied gesso and each canvas has a 1

The hummingbird is a symbol of tenacity and endurance

and love of nature

AUTUMN PORTRAIT is the personification of autumn from the Season Portraits series

CAMELIA Original Oil Painting Bella Terra Watercolors and loving face that welcomesCAMELIA is the first painting in the Mother Earth series about the struggle with preserving and restoring the environment. The female image is symbolic of Mother Earth and each plant, insect, and animal has its own symbolism related to the natural cycles of death and decay, growth and rebirth, what is naturally occurring and what is unnaturally occurring in the environment. In this painting Mother Earth is essentially gagged and oppressed but she