No ordinary kitchen goddess, among formidable Haumea's offspring is feisty Fire Goddess, Pele, who Haumea is said to have birthed by mouth. Prolific Haumea oversees Earth's gardens, especially in her home Hawaiian Islands, where our planet's most exceptional fruits and flowers grow.

Here, from Filson's series "Playing With Gauguin" (details Hawaiian Goddesses category), HAUMEA, is depicted in a field of anthurium flowers, hefting a tray of mangoes, very pregnant with a mango herself, backgrounded by an equally fertile diffusion of mangoes and plumeria blossoms.

In Hawaiian Goddesses, we offer a set of three miniature Goddesss paintings: HAUMEA, POLI'AHU, Snow Goddess of Mauna Kea, and PELE, Fire Goddess.

Tour Hawaiian Islands as you cruise the Hawaiian Oil Paintings. Like our BIG ISLAND WAHINE WITH PAPAYA depicted at left. Look for lovely Hawaiian ladies from the series "Waiting" languishing on Kuaui, Maui and Oahu in Nudes and Hawaiian Oil Paintings.

Kahuna Series tells an amazing story "Weekend with a Kahuna" a coffee-table book by Filson, depicting a spiritual experience with a high kahuna of Hawaii come to Oahu, to Waikiki, to perform a once-every-ten-years solstice ceremony with an ancient Sacred Talking Rock from Kilauea Volcano, and to pose for ourartist. During the weekend, the kahuna and the artist were visited by miraculous happenings and spirits who appeared on photographs with the kahuna. Kahuna Series and "Weekend With a Kahuna" are in works. Each kahuna oil painting completed will appear on our site.

Look for Da Happy Tree, an ever-changing fantastic tapestry of birds and flowers, brilliant with Hawaiian colors, in Abstracts and Whimsical, where if you look closely, you will spy Hawaiian "talk story" going on between birds and flowers.

In Honolulu and Waikiki Life find "Yard Art" in which our artist depicts everyday local Hawaiian life as well as that of tourists. For instance; depicted below right, is KALI, THE WOODCARVER. This brilliant artist may be found under the banyan tree in Kapiolani park, in Honolulu, carving unique Hawaiian warriors and accepting donations of wood from locals who know he will never cut a tree himself.