Rejection notices hurt
Rejection hurts. Many artists think about rejection so much that they are afraid to even create. This is a crime and a theft of art before it is even born. How do we deal with the suffering that comes with…
Artists explore inner and outer worlds
Karen Coles and Betty Lou Hendrickson’s paintings together form Genesis II, a brand new exhibition at the Full of Beans restaurant in George Town. The work of both artists is very varied, but focuses on landscapes and seascapes, with some…
British galleries buy Renaissance masterpiece
British galleries buy Renaissance masterpiece LONDON (AP) — Two major British art galleries have raised 45 million pounds ($72 million) to buy a Renaissance masterpiece that has been in the U.K. for 200 years and keep it on public display…
Windows on another world
Orchid Morrison’s paintings explore the world of her imagination. Her paintings, distinctive and unusual, are filled with vivid, contrasting as well as complementary colours. Ms. Morrison has been developing her unique style ever since she began to paint seriously in…
Changes – brings “biggest ever” art show to Cayman
They say size isn’t everything…. But artist and curator Nickola McCoy-Snell thinks her latest exhibition is the biggest the country has every seen. Changes is the name of an art show opening on Thursday evening upstairs at Woods Furniture store….
Circumnavigating the Globe with Bendel Hydes
Circumnavigating the Globe is the name of an exhibition consisting of 12 large paintings by Cayman’s premier visual artist, Bendel Hydes. It is the first art exhibition in the new National Gallery building. The paintings represent a sort of visual…
A rose by any other name
Instead of buying a red rose, Luelan Bodden is giving his wife a very special Valentines gift – a giant pink rose made from the insides of conch shells. It’s the 20th conch sculpture that Mr. Bodden, 43, an electrician…
Di’s got a ticket to ride
Wildlife in Boliva, boat children of Beijing and praying Buddist monks in South East Asia. Diana Willington has been there, done that and taken the picture. Now you can share her memories from through the lens at a unique exhibition…
Sculptures of human emotions
Avril Ward is already well-known in the Cayman Islands for her bold and vivid acrylic paintings, but recently she has been branching out into sculptures too, although it is perhaps more accurate to say she has rediscovered sculpture: “Sculpture and…
