Narrative Portraiture - Selected Works
Kendra
Personal Identity - Portrait
This portrait draws inspiration from Jamaican heritage and lifestyle, blending cultural references, vibrant color, and humor to create a celebratory visual language rooted in identity and joy. While informed by conversation and biographical details, the visual language is driven by the artist’s interpretive approach—using bold color, symbolic elements, and stylized composition to reflect personality rather than literal likeness. The result balances intimacy with graphic structure, translating individual narrative into a celebratory, contemporary portrait.
Narrative Portraiture - Selected Works
Romance Story
Couples Journey - Portrait
This couples portrait explores shared history and relationship dynamics through layered symbolism and expressive color. This custom portrait illustrates a couple’s shared journey, tracing the story of their relationship from early romance to engagement. Symbolic elements woven throughout the composition reflect meaningful places, memories, and inner worlds, transforming the portrait into a visual narrative rather than a literal likeness. Inspired in part by the timeless themes of The Little Prince—childlike wonder, imagination, and seeing with the heart—the vibrant color palette reinforces ideas of love, growth, and connection as an evolving story shaped by experience.Personal references and milestones inform the narrative content, while the overall composition, palette, and visual rhythm are artist-directed. The work functions as both a commemorative piece and a visual story—capturing connection, memory, and mutual identity within a cohesive illustrative framework.
Narrative Portraiture - Selected Works
Gamer Birthday
Mindcraft Birthday - Portrait
Developed as a birthday portrait, this piece translates a child’s interests and imagination into a narrative-driven visual scene. Familiar characters and environments serve as storytelling devices rather than literal references, allowing the portrait to merge likeness with fantasy. An11-year-old’s love of Minecraft, transforming the familiar digital world into a larger-than-life narrative where imagination, family, and play collide—featuring the child alongside his parents as part of the story.
Guided by a bold, graphic style and playful scale shifts, the work emphasizes joy, agency, and personal world-building within a structured illustrative system. This work illustrates how portraiture can move beyond representation to become storytelling, memory-making, and celebration.
Narrative Portraiture - Selected Works
Zumba Instructors
Zumba Appreciation - Portrait
This custom group portrait was created to honor a team of Zumba instructors whose work centers on movement, encouragement, and shared energy. The illustration balances individual likeness with a cohesive composition, using color, pose, and gesture to express confidence, joy, and community. Rather than a static group image, the portrait functions as a visual celebration of motion, collaboration, and appreciation.
