Sheroes & Heroes Series

Sheroes & Heroes

Emma Gonzalez

Original Sold. Prints available.
Emma watched her classmates get gunned down. Then she stood up againt gun violence and made a difference.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Original Sold. Prints available.

His dream is getting closer but such a long way to go.

Frida Kahlo

Original Sold. Prints available.

A female artist who transformed her inner depths onto canvas.

Dahli Lama

6 x 6 x 1.5" oil on canvas
$120

A teacher of peace and inner wisdom.

Susan B Anthony

6 x 6 x 1.5" oil on canvas
$120

One of many suffragettes fighting for women's rights.

Albert Einstein

Original Sold. Prints available.

A brilliant scientist and thinker of the 20th century.

Maya Angelou

Original Sold. Prints available.

This poet had so many gifts but her poetry makes you laugh, weep, and step into another's shoes.

Pete Seeger

Original Sold. Prints available.

One man (with a banjo) can truly change the world!

Greta Thunberg

20 x 20 x 2" oil on canvas $900

This young lady started a revolution to protect our environment and our existence on this planet.

Mahatma Gandhi

Original Sold. Prints available.

One man changed the fate on an entire nation with nonviolent resistance.

Leonardo da Vinci

Original Sold. Prints available.

A polymath and self-taught artist considered one of the most diversely talented individuals ever to have lived.

Jacques Cousteau

Original Sold. Prints available.As a SCUBA diver myself, this man made my dreams come true.

Fred Rogers

6 x 6 x 1.5" oil on canvas
$120

Rogers developed a show in 1968, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, that helped children build self-esteem, conquer their fears, and love others. BUT he also addressed taboo topics such as divorce, nuclear war and racism. It was the longest-running program on public television, lasting 33 years and finally ending its run in 2001.

Emilia Earhart

Original Sold. Prints available.

Aviator - 1st female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Author, co-founded the Ninety-Nines, member of the Ntl Women’s Party.

David Bowie

Original Sold. Prints available.

English singer-songwriter and actor. He was a leading figure in popular music for over five decades, acclaimed by critics and fellow musicians for his innovative work. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation.

Aretha Franklin

Original Sold. Prints available.

American singer, songwriter, civil rights activist, actress, and pianist. Franklin began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan.

Charlotte Brontë

Original Sold. Prints available.

English novelist and poet Author of Jane Eyre called the 'first historian of the private consciousness’. She explored classism, sexuality, religion, and proto-feminism in her writing.

Mother Teresa

6 x 6 x 1.5" oil on canvas
$120

Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary founded the Missionaries of Charity with over 4,500 sisters and was active in 133 countries in 2012. The congregation manages homes for people dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; dispensaries and mobile clinics; children's- and family-counseling programs; orphanages, and schools.

Madam C.J. Walker

Original Sold. Prints available.

Entrepreneur, philanthropist, African-American and a political and social activist. Eulogized as the first female self-made millionaire in the US, she became one of the wealthiest self-made women in America and wealthiest African-American women in the country and one of the most successful women and African-American business owners ever.

James Baldwin

Original Sold. Prints available.

American novelist and social critic. Books: The Devil Finds Work, Remember This House. Film I am Not Your Negro.

Jesus

6 x 6 x 1.5" oil on canvas
$120.

Preacher and leader of Christianity teaching love and sacrifice, honoring our parents, condemnation of murder, theft, dishonesty and coveting of other’s possessions… radical ideas of the time.

Henry David Thoreau

6 x 6 x 1.5" oil on canvas
$120.

American essayist, poet, author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience"

Harper Lee

6 x 6 x 1.5" oil on canvas
$120.

Author of Pulitzer Prize winner “To Kill a Mocking Bird” deals with the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class.

Georgia O'Keeffe

6 x 6 x 1.5" oil on canvas
$120.

American artist. She was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism".

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Original Sold. Prints available.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (or RBG) spent a lifetime flourishing in the face of adversity before being appointed a Supreme Court justice, where she successfully fought against gender discrimination and unified the liberal block of the court. Ginsburg’s mother instilled a love of education in her. She exceled at James Madison High School and Cornell University, and Harvard Law

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How They Came to Be

Back in 2016, I began having this sinking feeling. It seemed attitudes, politics and global problems were all getting very dark. People, seemingly capable of making change, stood back and let the madness happen. I asked myself, "Where are all the innovators, thinkers, warriors? Where have all the heroes gone?"

I pondered this question for some time until it dawned on me that here have been many incredible people in the past. I summoned many who have personally moved me and shaped my ideas and laid them down on canvas with oils. I hung them up, just for me, to inspire me and give me hope. Then new young people began to rise and stand up for our future as well.

Little did I know that so many others longed for heroes, too. So, I've been selling them and make prints so folks can take them home. This series of my personal Sheroes & Heroes continues to grow and inspire me to stand up and speak out.