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The original has been SOLD! It was painted on 36x48 canvas.

Painting's Story: "Five carefree children are depicted in this piece entitled "Sankofa's Seeds." In Africa, Sankofa is a sacred bird that flies in the air with an egg in its mouth looking backward, but yet flies forward. The bird looking back represents, giving thanks to our ancestors who have paved the way for us to have a better life. The egg represents the seeds (children) and the bird is moving ahead into the future."

Artist name is now "Sabreee". Business name is now "Sabreee's Gullah Art Gallery" Patricia Elaine Sabree, {formally Patricia Elaine McFadden} is the product of Lake City, a small country town carved from the dark earth, located in the low country of South Carolina. Lake City is known for its amazing crop raising, dusky flatland, muddy-swamp wetland, endless fishing, surplus of snakes, and the Gullah people culture. Even though now divorced, Sabree kept her married name, "Sabree" due to its meaning, "one who preseveres until the job is done," and the connection it gave to her two lovely daughters- Faridah and Ameenah. Sabree and her fourteen siblings spent most of their youth working on a farm. Their parents were loyal sharecroppers who...