"Sentiimentu di Kabu Verdi" Triptych (Creative Pathways Community Work)

Lead Artist

Beth Bailey

The Story

Sentiimentu di Kabu Verdi (The Feeling of Cape Verde) is a vibrant exploration of home, place, and shared memory, originally created as a collaborative fine art triptych by the residents of The Douglas House in Brockton. Rooted in a core belief that everyone is inherently creative, the project began with a simple question posed to the community: "What does home mean to you?"

The core breakthrough came from a resident artist named Janice Elizabeth Barber Francis, whose sketchbook drawings of a coastal landscape and three turtles became the primary anchor for the composition. The final piece transports the viewer to a beach on one island looking across the open sea toward another, featuring bold sea life, a radiant mother sun, and palm trees swaying in the breeze.

Built through a unique method of layering together drawing, paint, and hand cut collage from numerous contributors, this open edition print beautifully captures the joy, longing, and power of community storytelling, keeping our most beloved homeplaces alive within us no matter where we are in the world.

The original masterpiece received professional custom framing services generously donated by The Frame Center. Today, the original paintings are permanently installed inside the walls of The Douglas House in Brockton where its story first began.

Details

• Printed locally by a professional print house

• Open edition fine art reproduction

• Printed on premium heavyweight paper with archival inks

• Matte finish that beautifully captures the texture of the original work

• Packaged with care and shipped flat directly from the studio

• Printed with a white border for easy framing

• Frame is not included

Your Impact

When you acquire this art, you are directly supporting community arts education. All sales through this shop flow directly through Creative Pathways, a registered 501(c)(3) organization founded by the artist. Your purchase directly funds the mission, including free after school arts programming for students in Brockton.

You are investing in beautiful art and a more creative world.