Anna-Marie

MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA

WENDY GAUNTLETT-SHAW – ARTIST



24”x36” Oil on Canvas

Original $3000

Fine Art Giclee Reproduction: $700

(On Canvas, Stretched and Gallery wrapped, ready to hang)

10% Donated for micro loans to women

We met Ana-Marie and her family in the displaced shelter in Medellin where my daughter volunteered. The family looked very unsettled and nervous. In their town, the guerillas or para military abducted the men and gave the women and children only minutes to flee. Her husband, Jose, had miraculously escaped and was hiding from the drug terrorists.

Anna-Marie wanted photos, a document of her baby and the family. This was, most likely, their last portrait. One week later, Jose was hunted down and shot dead in front of the shelter.

Colombians have lived with terror from the drug trade for years. It has torn families and their country apart. For what? So the U.S. can feed its drug habit?