Paul Lewin is a Jamaican-born artist who currently lives in Miami, Florida. The above piece, called “Nanny and the Pumpkin Seeds”, was inspired by the Jamaican folktale of Queen Nanny and the pumpkin seeds:
[…] She is one of my favorite characters from Caribbean folklore and is Jamaica’s only female national hero. She was leader of the winward maroon tribe, a group africans who escaped slavery into the mountains of Jamaica and practiced guerrilla warfare on British plantations.