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This portrait is a companion piece to, Promethea. My younger daughter, Gracie, served as the model. In this work, Prosperata is pictured as an embodiment of Lakshmi, the consort of the Hindu god, Vishnu. Lakshmi is normally depicted with a lotus growing at her navel. She is also depicted with elephants and usually with gold, which I showed by depicting Kitsap County's Gold Mountain in the background. She is a harbinger of prosperity. These two paintings may be the beginning of a series. I enjoy the idea of depicting deities as regular, everyday people--showing the divinity in each of us.

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James Andrews is an artist and teacher who has been living in the Pacific Northwest since 1999. Andrews work is best described as Narrative Surrealism. While he is skilled in classical figure drawing with graphite and color pencil, the bulk of his professional work is in painting. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1973, Andrews' family moved out to Long Island's beautiful East End when he was a toddler. The skies, waters and other scenic features of the beloved Hamptons area, which he will always refer to as “home” populate many of his paintings. Andrews has always had a love of art and the stories it can tell. This love led him to pursue and earn a BFA in Theatrical Design from the State University of New York at New Paltz and,...