Melissa Preddie
Melissa Preddie uses acrylic paints, which are eco-friendly, as opposed to regular paint that will leave a negative impact on the environment as well as recycled material to make her art.
Lisa Hendricks
Lisa was born in Uganda, raised in Nigeria and educated in the UK. Upon her arrival to Jamaica in 1992, Lisa choose the foothills of the John Crow Mountains, Portland and has found a home there.
Khalfani Ra
"My work is a martial exercise. It's a process of weaponizing aesthetics in the service of truth towards the decolonization of the black being. This politics, history, culture, religion, etc. and the myriad ways in which they interrelate in the forging or distortion of identity constantly engages me in my creative practice.” - Khalfani Ra
Susan Clare
The award-winning artist Susan Clare, is teaming up with the Jamaica Inn Foundation and White River Fish Sanctuary to raise funds for ongoing marine preservation off the north shore of Jamaica.
Kate Moyston
Kate Moyston is a painter based in Montego Bay, primarily known as a figurative artist. She completed an Art Foundation course at Braintree College of Art and studied graphic design at Maidstone College of Art. She weaves symbols into her paintings, subtle hints or clues of what the sitter may be feeling or revealing, they are often autobiographical. She paints exclusively in oils and on canvas.
Carol Crichton
Born & raised in Jamaica Carol Crichton studied at the School of Visual Arts New York USA. In her paintings she explores the personal human journey, but Jamaica is her main Muse & subject. Her work is included in many private & corporate collections.
Michele Lee Lambert
Michele Lee Lambert works in photography, oil and encaustic (beeswax and damar resin). Collectors include the Jamaica National Bank and the ROK hotel. She recently had a show in Montego Bay with fellow artist Oliver Myrie.
Michael Stanley
British-born, Jamaica-based artist Mike Stanley (1944-2020) studied at Chelsea College of Arts, London (1963-67). He taught art in London and then at the Caribbean School of Architecture and exhibited on average every two years, including some joint exhibitions with his wife Margaret. The National Gallery of Jamaica remembers Mike as a brilliant post- abstractionist whose inspirations were drawn from Jamaica"s tropical environment.
Zorhia Allen
Zorhia Allen was born in 1996 in St Elizabeth, Jamaica. She completed her Bachelors Degree in Art Education at the Edna Manley School of Art. Zorhia’s work questions what influences the idea of wanting to be and the prerequisites of having a sense of belonging. She believes “The way in which we define our identity, physically and physiologically is fused from our colonial past.”
PJ Stewart
“The work is clearly about my personal values, seasoned as they are by the experiences of a lifetime. It is an ongoing quest to find the means of expression - colour language, exploration of technique and dimension. I am simply on a journey and my work is the visualisation of that passage.”
Stacie-Ann Shaw AKA Artsy Yaadie
Stacie-Ann Shaw is a Jamaican architect and creative with a passion for the fine arts. Her work is heavily inspired by life and culture in the Caribbean and colorful, contemporary folk art.
Tricia Gordon-Johnston
Born in Kingston, Tricia Gordon-Johnston lives and works in Jamaica. Tricia's artwork is informed by Minimalist, Nubian and Cycladic art. Generally her paintings and installations are a complex of density, atmospheric vastness, enveloped linear composites, saturation and transient states of hegemony through fragility. Her paintings utilize the female body and speak about birth and other topics affecting women. She has exhibited locally and internationally.
Joy Thompson
A vervain artist, Joy Thompson often works on drift-wood, and is well know for her portrait work and attention to detail.