Each year in the run up to Carnival, the Department for the Creative Arts at the University of the West Indies recreates the 'Old Yard' , complete with actors and students performing as traditional carnival characters. For the past few years I have turned up with my art materials and taken up the challenge of capturing something of this spectacle. It is always a dynamic performance, which means it's often possible only to make a few marks on the paper before the pose has changed completely...
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My father, Paul Deacon, is an artist in my home town of Malmesbury. In January 2014 we joined forces to produce 'Sketch', a 2 week exhibition of sketch book pages, swatches and observational drawings, displayed in Malmesbury Town Hall's John Bowen Gallery. Paul's sketches were compiled over several years in many different locations - from the Sea of Cortez to the East coast of Scotland. My work was exclusively produced while living in Trinidad and Tobago over the past 3 years, including super-quick watercolours of carnival characters, and pastel-finished paintings produced during travels in the rainforests of French Guiana. |
ArtI am a keen artist in my spare time. I currently run a natural history art group within the TTFNC. Archives
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