Summary: My work depicts Queen Nanny in her element. This is reflected by the moist mountain forest of the Blue Mountains, illuminated by the night's crescent moon - foreshadowing the Maroon’s Abeng horn. In addition, she is dressed in the colours and patterns of a Jamaican endemic dove called The Mountain Witch. Standing among the herbs and plants under a large Cotton Tree, the tree embodying the presence and covering of the ancestral spirits, she gathers a cutting of a plant, commonly known as Pepper Elder or Black Jointer used in cooking and also used in traditional medicines. In this piece Queen Nanny looks to one side into the night, as if something has broken her quiet forest meditation. Behind and above her, a Jamaican endemic bird, the Chestnut Bellied Cuckoo (the Rain Bird or Old Man Bird), mirrors her thoughtful gaze from high in the canopy of the Cotton Tree. The work is rooted in what many believe would have been a common practice not only of Nanny, but of so many "fugitive slaves" who took shelter in the Jamaican mountains. They learned and built communities around the spiritual, healing and nurturing power of our forests, plants, rivers and unique birdlife. For the creation of the work, it was very important for me to collect and use only the water from the Rio Grande River, that flowed across Nanny’s final resting place, for the watercolours.