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ARTISTS OF THE CARIBBEAN

And in our ongoing effort to reveal all aspects of Caribbean life and culture to our readers, we kick off the latest addition in our cultural tidbits section  - Artists of the Caribbean. Over the next few months we will introduce you to the pride and joy of our region – along with a brief bio on each artist. 

Let’s start with some of the Artists of Haiti:

Bresil Akenson
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, he is between 25 to 30 years of age, but all who see him are said to be struck by the fact that he looks like a young teenager.  Bresil is, like many Haitian painters, entirely self-taught.  He still lives and works in Port-au-Prince, where he has established and maintained a close working relationship with Galerie Issa, whose proprietor, Issa al Sayeh, has been a patron of Haitian art for many decades.  His works are exhibited in several galleries in Haiti.

Fritzner Alphonse
Born in Port-au-Prince on July 18 1938, he was a childhood friend of Calixte Henri who introduced him to painting in 1972.  His work often depicts the Creole woman.  He is also known for his still life’s.  Alphonse has exhibited in France, the United States, and Mexico.

Smith Blanchard
Born in Port-au-Prince on August 19 1952, he is the son of Sisson Blanchard, a first generation painter. At the age of 12, he participated in his first exhibitions in Port-au-Prince.  He often visited workshops of other painters such as Senatus, Calixte Henri, Normil and Jn Rene Jerome.  His style can be described as situated halfway between dream and reality, expressing the fantastic in the most banal every-day events and scenes - be they jungles, persons, or voodoo subjects. Blanchard has exhibited in the United States, Europe (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Holland), as well as in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Beaubrun Borimon
Beaubrun Borimon was born in Baraveur, Haiti, in 1964 or 1965.  He started painting when he was 15 years old.  For the last 15 years, he has been living and painting in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince.  He is a self-described "slow worker", and is best-known for his pastel coloured market scenes.  His works are exhibited and sold in two galleries in Haiti, as well as in Haitian galleries throughout the Caribbean, and some in the United States and France.

Seymour Etienne Bottex
Born in Port Margot in Northern Haiti on December 24 1922, the younger brother of the painter Jn. Baptiste Bottex, he worked as a photographer until 1955 when, encouraged by his brother, he started to paint, first at the Centre d’Art, then in 1969 at the Galerie Issa. In the late 1980’s he moved to New York where he continues to paint.  His works are often featured in art publications.  He has exhibited in Spoleto (1970), Rome, Milan, Modena (1981), Sotheby Parke Bernet - New York, Closerie des Lilas (1980), Musee Max Fourny (1988), Espace Cardin (1990), Paris, etc.  Bottex is considered one of the finest representatives of Naive Painters because of his unique style which freely mingles humoristic, historical and biblical themes. Seymour was one of the painters commissioned by Bishop Voegli to paint the walls and ceiling of the Cathedral Episcopal in Port-au-Prince.  To this day, these murals are considered the most important achievement in Haitian modern art.

Jean David Boursiquot
Born near Jacmel in June 1949, he moved to Port-au-Prince in 1971 and worked as a cashier before being encouraged to paint by Philton Latortue, himself a well-known painter and a distant cousin.  His works were very well received and he sold his first paintings in 1972 at the Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince.  His works are currently sold by galleries the world over.  His paintings are mostly of scenes of rural life, depicting the lush and luxuriant vegetation of the Haitian countryside.

Henri Robert Bresil
Born in Gonaives in September 1952, he moved to Port-au-Prince in 1973 and took up painting.  After receiving the Ispan-Unesco prize of honour at the Museum of Haitian Art at St.Pierre’s College in 1981, he exhibited in Haiti at the Galerie Issa, Nader and Marassa galleries, and abroad in the United States, Puerto Rico, France, Italy and Switzerland.  As a landscape painter, Bresil is much lauded by art lovers and has been praised in the New York Times, Miami Herald and Hostess magazine, among other publications.

Jean Edner Cadet
Born on January 30 1965, he started painting in 1978.  His main influence was the painter Janet Roosevelt Sanon who is known for his imaginary landscapes.  From the realistic landscapes for which is he featured in the book "Haitian Painting", by Eva Pataki, he has progressed to paintings of landscapes in the soft dreamlike colours for which he is becoming famous.  Cadet has exhibited in Europe (Paris 1990), the United States (Miami, Chicago), Mexico 1993.

W. Cherizol
Born in Port-au-Prince on April 15 1959, he started painting in 1978 under the influence of his artist-painter cousin, Ernst Louizor, with whom he developed a highly unique painting technique.  It consists of applying great quantities of paint “dans chacune de ses toiles afin d’en accentuer les reliefs.”

Jacques-Richard Chery
Born in Cap Haitien in Northern Haiti on February 2 1928, he started painting whilst still working in his regular job as a barber.  He then opened a gas station in the Artibonite Valley and exhibited his art at his work site.  Following the warm reception given to his works, and on the advice of his friend Philome Obin, he moved to Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haitian Art, in 1951.  In 1965, he entered the Galerie Issa where he painted for several years.  His works are often reproduced in magazines (Vogue, Time) as well as in art books.  He has exhibited in London (1969), Spoletto (1970), Modene (1981), New York, Milwaukee, Berlin (1979), Sotheby Parke Bernet, Paris (1980, 88, 90), etc.  His earlier works were representative of the Northern School, focusing on the minutely detailed representation of historical scenes or events of every-day life (such as carnivals, Christmas etc.).

Claude Dambreville
Born in Port-au-Prince on December 17 1934, he directed Radio Tropiques, a commercial radio station, from 1956 to 1968 before entering the Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince in 1968 where he learned and perfected his painting technique.  He is married (with two children) to the daughter of Petion Savain, artist of the first generation of Haitian painters whom he met at the Centre d’Art.  Using blue and grey colour tones, playing with shadows, the force and strength of his works rests in his ability to represent the strength, the dignity and the grace of the persons, mostly market people, who are his subjects.  He has exhibited in New York, Boston, New Orleans, Guyana, Haiti, Paris (1990), Ivory Coast, Mexico (1993).  Dambreville is also a writer and journalist.

Patrick Deslouches
Born in Port-au-Prince on March 19 1961, he turned full-time painter after attending an art school in 1973, where he refined his technique.  After studying under many of the better known artists in Haiti, he sold his first painting in 1982.  He is best known for the luxuriousness and vibrancy of his colourful animal-populated jungle scenes.

Abner Dubic
Born in Leogane on November 17 1948, he moved to Port-au-Prince when he was a child and has lived there ever since.  Abner was inspired to paint when he saw the artist Gabriel Levecque painting in Croix de Bouquet, Haiti.  He has since developed his personal style, usually painting scenes of the surrounding mountainous country side.  His works have commanded high prices at the Parke Bernet Auction House in 1975, 77, 78, 79.  He also participated in two very successful exhibitions in Paris and Auxerre organised by Jean Marie Drot and Andre Malraux.  His works are sold in galleries in Chicago, New York, Paris, and are included in many important private collections of Haitian Art.

Prefete Duffaut
Born in Jacmel in 1923.  In his youth, his only way of expressing himself was through drawings.  In the 1940’s he met Rigaud Benoit and entered the Centre d’Art in 1948.  A naive painter, he started by painting scenes from his rural life in minute detail, later progressing to a more fantastic style.  In 1951, he was commissioned to do a mural at the Cathedrale Episcopale de Port-au-Prince.  In his, the first, generation of Haitian artists he emerged as the visionary painter, the builder of surreal and symbolic images and scenes.

Charles Dufranc
Born in Jeremie on October 10 1949.  After grade school, he moved with his parents to Port-au-Prince. After a brief attempt at sculpture he switched to painting in 1973.  He has had various exhibitions in his own country, as well as in the United States and Venezuela.  He is very popular in France and his work is shown in major galleries and exhibitions there.

Francoise Eliassaint
Born in Puerto Principe in 1962, she was the companion and assistant of the famous artist-painter Andre Normil for many years until, encouraged by the latter, she started to paint herself at the Galerie Issa.  In 1982, she joined the artists of the Saint-Soleil.  Her subjects are often images of Virgins with children, or portraits of weddings.