In the British Virgin Islands, most residents relate the word Images to a fanciful framing shop and Caribbean-style art gallery owned by BVI Belonger, Lisa Muddiman Gray. But before Images, many will remember The Gallery – a small fine art gallery and retail shop located in one of the many characteristically charming and historic West Indian buildings on Main Street […]
At Emile’s Restaurant & Suites, fourteen would-be artists sat around a long table, working their brushes diligently through dabs of red and yellow paint, trying to get the shading just right on the butterfly wings they are creating. “I think I messed up,” said one painter. “The legs don’t look right.” But her instructor told […]
Have you ever started reading a book from the back? Maybe not, because we are most times warned not to. I suggest, however, when you get a copy of Michael Anthony’s first book – Hmmm…Food for Thought – that you do just that, start from the back cover and I am convinced that you’ll be […]
Lutia “Tai” Durante’s, passion for the art is so deep, that it burns through canvas! It is not every day that one’s love for a hobby shines so deeply as Lutia “Tai” Durante’s passion for painting that it burns through the thick core of his breathtaking artwork. Scenes from his travels, throughout the US and […]
Someone was once quoted as saying “Dancing is an art. The floor is my canvas, and I am the brush. And whatever I create comes from the heart.” Since the age of seven, Sarah Penney has been creating breathtaking artwork right at home in the Virgin Islands and is more involved now than ever with […]
Wikipedia would state that a sail is means for redirecting the power of the wind to propel a craft on the water, ice or land. As the wind passes along the fabric of a sail, it creates both drag and lift to move the craft. On a sailing vessel, what appears to be a flat […]
Stepping into Odd Box is like taking a step under the sea. As soon as the door made of glass and wood swung open the array of contrasting colours of mermaids, seals, octopuses, sharks, tortoise, came into sharp focus. I felt like an explorer oohing and ahhing over the unique and stunning creations on […]
“It’s a child’s joy that keeps us going every year,” Durante said. When I first heard about the Tree of Hands, I was immediately enthralled. Tree of Hands? What is this? Sounds kind of spooky too, was that a Halloween something? Being the kind who likes to satisfy my curiosity, I immediately called the […]
