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Feature – Nakazzi Hutchinson
Today’s Sunday Gleaner newspaper carries a feature on the unique Bajan/Jamaican artist Nakazzi Hutchinson. Unique because of her distinctly different sculpted creations. This vivacious young woman is living her dream as she unmasks her soul and sculpts her own path to art lovers across the world, earning comparisons with her highly critical Barbados-born dad, Dr [...]
Continue reading...Profile – Self-Taught Artist Lattecha Willocks
12. November 2011
Today’s Jamaica Gleaner newspaper carries a feature on self-taught artist, Lattecha Willocks. Despite being the victim of four robberies, self-taught artist and poet, Lattecha Willocks, is intent on showing a beautiful calm in her paintings that are bursting with colourful and distinctive expressions of life and feminism … Willocks’ work arrests the imagination and offers [...]
Continue reading...Ja Art Gallery
20. October 2011
Located at Shop #3 at Devon House in Kingston, Ja Art Gallery offers painted art (original works of art and printed reproductions), photographs and more. For more information, check them out online at ja-artgallery.com.
Continue reading...Barrington Watson Feature: A life in paint
17. October 2011
Today’s Sunday Gleaner carries a Tamara Scott-Williams feature on master painter, Barrington Watson. As its contribution to the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts’ inaugural Rex Nettleford Arts Conference — ‘The Arts: Catalyst for Caribbean Development’ — the National Gallery of Jamaica hosted, on Thursday, a public lecture by Jamaican Master Painter [...]
Continue reading...Courtney Hogarth Feature
2. October 2011
Today’s Sunday Gleaner newspaper carries a feature on Courtney Hogarth, a Jamaican artist who has spent much of the last 12 years in China. His exhibition currently on at the Olympia Gallery is evidence of his deep love and understanding of classical Chinese painterly techniques, a visual language he employs to convey contemporary subject matter. [...]
Continue reading...Photographer & Artist Howard Moo Young
25. September 2011
Today’s Sunday Gleaner newspaper carries a feature on photographer/artist, Howard Moo Young. Jamaican artist Howard Moo Young is well known for his photography skills. He’s the man responsible for the now famous photograph of reggae legend Bob Marley standing between and holding the hands of then prime minister, Michael Manley and Edward Seaga at the [...]
Continue reading...Feature On Mandeville-Based Artist Wilford Wilson
24. September 2011
Today’s Gleaner newspaper carries a feature on Mandeville-based artist, Wilford Wilson, a man who has had major setbacks in life, but through it all, he has shown tremendous determination in fulfilling his long-time dream of being an artist. Wilson, without a doubt, has put to the test the adage ‘Whatever the mind conceives can be [...]
Continue reading...Artist Profile – Sebastion Elliott
4. September 2011
Today’s Sunday Gleaner newspaper carries a feature on Sebastion Elliott, a young man journeying on a path to becoming one of Jamaica’s outstanding artists, and who is already making his mark. Elliot, 26, opened his gallery, La Galerie De Sebastion, in Manchester three years ago. There you can find displays of his work. He also [...]
Continue reading...Matchstick Art
13. August 2011
Today’s Gleaner newspaper has a feature on matchstick artists, Odeon Gooden, Kevian Campbell and Lisias Watson of Aboukir in St. Ann. Yes they are for real, dream houses made of matchsticks. You can’t live in them, but these fascinating works of art are ideal as gifts and conversation pieces. While some are just multi-storey miniature [...]
Continue reading...Jamaican Artist Michael Murray
7. August 2011
Jamaican artist, Michael Murray, is featured in today’s Sunday Observer newspaper: Michael Murray is resolved to making a success of himself as an artist, but money is not what drives his ambition. Instead, it’s the desire to have his work recognised and appreciated … more here
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8. January 2012
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