Expressionist Portrait Painting, "Ethiopian Woman"

Covering her braids with an embroidered scarf, a beautiful young woman reveals her Ethiopian origins. "I was inspired by a photograph in an old issue of National Geographic, " artist Lawrence Kwaku Agyeman confides. He exalts her physical beauty while exploring the psyche behind the steadfast gaze. "Our women must be admired. Beauty is subjective, and, as they say, it is in the eyes of the beholder."