Success has an itinerary. In the case of Cape Town street artist and painter Faith47, who is currently exhibiting in New York, her travel schedule is now truly global. Since coming to prominence locally with murals, including a 2010 series on the Freedom Charter, this tattooed skinnymalinks has gone on to show far and wide.In 2012 she famously created a mural depicting a rhino family in a demolished Shanghai neighbourhood. It was not a benign choice of subject by an artist with a marked social conscience.Animals recur in Faith47's international output. She has exported her interest in endangered and imaginary animals (notably tigers and unicorns) to gritty suburbs in London and Miami.An accomplished draughtsman, Faith47's hard-edged graphic style is tempered by her southern peninsula upbringing.Raised on a diet of earthy food and mountain walks by her single mom, her earthy childhood inculcated a "deep connection" with nature.She is also suspicious of cities, in particular their aspirations to permanence. This explains her habit of creating murals in uncommon places, including Djerba, an island off the coast of Tunisia, and Río San Juan, a beach town in the Dominican Republic.Her debut solo exhibition Aqua Regalia, at Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York's Chelsea gallery district, recaps this interest in wild things, in particular swans.The largest swan painting on offer in New York measures 1.2m x 1.2 m and is priced at $4800 (R70000). It was unsold when I visited.The centrepiece of her exhibition is an acrylic and oil canvas titled Marianne (2014). It depicts a classical female figure haloed by stars and moons.The work, which sold for $4800, occupies a space in a temporary shrine. This devotional space - which includes religious icons, beggars' signs and medicinal tinctures - maps all the places Faith47 has visited during her travels.It also marks a refreshing departure by an artist exploring collage and abstraction, positions that don't rely on showcasing her great representational facility.On until December 19 at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York..