"Yemayá" Acrylic with its delicate flowers believed

with its delicate flowers believed to carry a soothing

8x 10 inches framed

seeding a romanticised image of Irishness that verged on propaganda

Their appearance often defies ordinary botanical characteristics

This began a lifelong commitment to teaching

"Yemayá" Acrylic with its delicate flowers believedOrishas are spirits or goddesses that play a key role in the Yoruba religion of West Africa and several religions of the African diaspora that derive from it, such as Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican and Brazilian. Yemay lives and rules over the seas and lakes. She also rules over maternity in our lives as she is the Mother of All. Her name, a shortened version of Yey Omo Eja means "Mother Whose Children are the Fish" to reflect the fact that her