Thanks for stopping by www.savannahgallery.com for a visit. The Gallery has enjoyed a web presence for over a decade now, and although often overlooked through the years, we promise to keep our new site fresh and interesting, with new works uploaded at the same time they are hung on the Gallery’s walls.
Please don’t hesitate to email savannah@anguillanet.com or call (264) 497-2263 to request additional photos of specific artists’ works, detail photos of works on the site, or information relating to these artists. Drop a note to say hello – it’s always my pleasure to touch base.
The Edge of the Island is a series of paintings by Jo-Anne Mason, which chornicle the architecture and character of buildings built on our shore. Her most recent work of this series is “The Old Straw Hat Restaurant”, a favourite spot for many, down in The Forest. To me, these works have a lot of the intimacy of Jo-Anne’s prints done
over a decade ago – she captures the exhuberance of our night-time sky superbly.
Eugene Jacques is an enormously talented sculptor working in Haiti today. He works with recycled oil drums, and other recycled metal elements to create these superb masks. The gallery exhibited a group last fall, and I am delighted to hang this current selection. These works are wonderfully
detailed – I keep going into the “metal gallery” and gazing at them myself…
The last time I had the yellow elder hedge cut beside the Gallery was just after Hurricane Omar blew it all down, pretty much a year ago. I asked my wonderful gardener Victor to trim it all down last week , as it was getting way too thick and tall. I was astounded and delighted to see this papaya (pawpaw) tree growing in its midst. I’d love to say that I planted it from seed, and tended to its every botanical need, but it just found a spot it liked and sprung forth on its’ own! 
I’m always impressed with the quality of work which the Jamaican artist Stafford Schliefer sends to the gallery. I first met Stafford on a trip to Kingston, Jamaica, over ten years ago – he is now one of Jamaica’s most important artists, at the age of 72. This new work, “Noontime at Ferry River”, is only one of 7 or 8 Ferry River paintings which Stafford has done, dating from 1972.
Historic homes and buildings on Anguilla are subject matter which many artists have persued through the years, none with finer result than Iris Lewis. I am delighted to announce that Savannah Gallery will be exhibiting a solo exhibition of mixed media works on paper, all related to the subject of “Historic Anguilla” in December of 2009. I visited Iris this morning, had a great visit, and took this rather stoic picture of her behind her body of work, almost completed. yet still in progress. They shall be up on the site within a few weeks – send me an email at savannah@anguillanet.com is you’d like to see some digital pics as they become available.
We finally had a great rain – a little over an inch over the last day or so. It was much needed for gardens and our cisterns, and everyone on Island seems quite delighted. I spotted this mini-rainbow in the sky this morning – hope you like it as much as I did!
The weather this September has been really quite wonderful – sunny, very warm, but breezy, which keeps it comfortable. I went to one of my favourite Sunday lunch spots today – Smokey’s on Cove Bay, and enjoyed it immensely again. Great food (one of the best “rotis” on Anguilla), and delightful staff. Lots of folks to chat with and catch up with (Smokey’s is one of the few place open in September), and the view from the restaurant is pure Anguilla.
I think I’m like every art dealer there is - unwrapping new works is like opening up wonderful surprise packages
. Today was no different. Marjorie Morani sent down two new paintings, and I love them. Morani, along with Jo-Anne Mason, were among the first artists I met in Anguilla when I arrived, those many years ago! She’s a great lady, and a very fine artist. Marj works with oils and a pallete knife, which gives the surface of her paintings a beautiful lushness. These two works have a nice provenace as well – they were both exhibited in the exhibition “Oceans” at the Chester River Artworks (Artworks) in Chestertown, Maryland.
TS Erika seems to have a mind of her own. Originally forecast to come across Anguilla last night, she dipped south at the last minute and crossed the Islands at Guadeloupe. Not much of a wind event, which was great, though we’re all still hoping for more rain, as the storm moves northwest…. Here’s a pic I took with the dogs, while walking the shore this morning.
Please join us for the opening of the exhibition “Historic Anguilla” a selection of works by Iris Lewis at the Gallery on Saturday, November 14th, from 10 am through noon. The exhibition is a beautiful and poignant collection, chronicling some of the old architecture, and olden ways of Anguilla.
