Art & Life
did a lot of nonsense when I was in school just to do art. I attended D.W. Davis in New Providence, and there they said only the dumb kids do art, and the smart kids to accounts, computer studies and the like, and that’s where they placed me. So, my first year in high school I did well, but I wanted to do art and I got fed up. When I was in grade 11, I’d never forget - on all my exams, I wrote, “I do not want to do this.” I failed everything.
They called my mother in to school; she looked at everything and understood. So she sent me home to Eleuthera, where I got to do art at Central Eleuthera High School. Since then and long before, that’s what I’ve always wanted to do. My cousin Julius and my little brother Sydney, we started off just sketching inside books, and we would have competitions with who had the most details, then it went to comics, and then making our own cartoons. My mother has a bible at home, my first bible that she kept. I would be in church, and all through the bible are sketches...
day looking at the sunset for a week, the hues and colors change all the time. Also at the Glass Window bridge, with the different elevations, undulating landscape and look-off points, just beautiful.
Did you study art formally? No. I always wanted to, and I actually
Artist, Abrian Rankine