Portraits

I decided to channel and interpret many of the large personalities, intense bright colors, and people of the NY Coney Island Mermaid Parade into a body of work. It was essential to portray a diverse series of women and female-presenting people in the parade. I wanted to explore their divergent emotions projecting power, strength, vulnerability, joy, gay pride, and women's power in multiple ways.

Click HERE to read “The Daily Heller”, a blog by Steve Heller for Print Magazine. There’s a short article, along with some of my mermaid paintings.