Sirens Series | Dee Smart — Watercolour Portraits on Arches Paper

Sirens

Dee Smart's Sirens series reimagines some of history's most iconic women — Frida Kahlo, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Audre Lorde and Bell Hooks — not as symbols of desire or cautionary myth, but as sovereign agents of change.

Painted in luminous watercolour on Arches fine art paper, each portrait strips away the mythology to reveal what lies beneath — the struggles carried, the obstacles overcome, the power that endured.

The Siren is no longer a warning. She is a reckoning.