These are individual pieces – one-offs. This painting is of my father, Roland Fortier, whose mother died from tuberculosis when he was just shy of three years old. This first painting fuses decades of exploring abstract expressionism with the new socially conscious expressionist direction.

Other works include a commission, a historical event that took place down the street from the Fairhaven studio, and a very dark chapter of a branch of the Fortier family in Louisiana, the 1811 German Coast Uprising. Newer individual pieces will be added as they are completed.