OIL ON CANVAS WRAP FRAME (painting continual on sides)

Big bold beautiful HAUMEA, Earth mother, Hawaiian Goddess of fertility, love, marriage, beauty. She is Pele's mother, and mother to the Sea Goddess and Goddess of Hula, Hi'aka.

Here, very pregnant with a mango, hefting a tray of reddest mangoes, backgrounded by a diffusion of mangoes on the trees and plumeria blossoms, standing in a field of anthuriums, enticing HAUMEA offers her bounty.

From the series "Playing With Gauguin." Sadly, this brilliantly-colored oil-painting does not photograph to best advantage. In person, she is more spectacular and looks wonderful standing on the floor or hanging on a wall.