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 Flamboyant trees are in bloom right now on Anguilla – a shame that they don’t flower when the Island is hopping, but those of us here through the summer are always dazzled by their display of flowers. These great trees (Delonix Regia) grow throughout the tropical world, and are known by a variety of names throughout Asia, Australia, South American and the Caribbean.
Iris Lewis brought in a vintage work of hers, about 15 years old, done of a Flamboyant. While I was driving up from her home today I encountered a tree in full flower. Both the real tree and the work of art are superb!
Roy’s, down at Sandy Ground, is an Anguillian insititution. The best fish and chips on the Island, and for occasional carnivores like myself, a great roast beef for Sunday lunch. Amazing yorkshire pudding, and first-rate mashed potatoes as well. Hey! I said “occasional” carnivore”………….
The final day of Anguilla boat racing was just getting going this afternoon. These boats are the “B” class boats, slightly smaller than the traditional “A” class boats, which were getting ready for a race later in the day.
We’re all just in from a lovely sunset walk, and were delighted to run into “Methuselah”, our neighbourhood box tortoise, who we encounter only every year, or so. The dogs seem to like him, and never harass him in any way. He, in turn, keeps his little head poked out, checking out his buddies. Lola decided against a close-up viewing, which is sorta typical of Madame.
If anyone has knows more about this type of tortoise, I’d like to know the info.
The gallery has been featuring some of the finest Haitian metal sculptures since our very first days, almost 14 years ago now. It’s rare to find a vintage metal sculpture such as this gem by Janvier Louis Juste. He, and his brother Serusier Louis Juste were both instrumental in teaching many of today’s generation of great sculptors in that destinctly Haitian way of working.
I love this small piece dating from the 1970’s
. It’s only about 9″ high, and so powerful.
Eugene Jacques is truly one of the most innovative sculptors in Haiti today. I respect all the artisans working in metal in the Haitian town of Croix des Bouquets, and am in awe of the direction which this artist in particular has taken the medium. I was fortunate in that an independent curator I know well was in Haiti recently, and selected this superb group of these sculptures for Savannah Gallery’s solo exhibition. There are 15 works in this show, and I’d be delighted to send individual digital pics to those that request them. savannah@anguillanet.com
Now, my sweet Anguilla dog Lola was not well this Spring – she had a nasty cyst on the bottom of her foot that needed a lot of attention. She’s a trooper, and did not complain, and to thank her for her cooperation, I splurged for six bucks on amazon.com a couple of weeks ago, and got her this rather lovely necklace. We’ll just bring it out of the vault on special occasions, but I thought my blog readers might enjoy seeing her model
it this afternoon.
The artist treated me to lunch at Trattoria Tramonto on Sunday, then sent me this superb painting on Monday….. It’s titled “Arbre a Pain”, and the title stumped me. It means “Breadfruit” – a wonderful fruit-bearing tree that grows here, and in most tropical lands.
What a great start to the week!
Waking Jean-Baptiste is a terrific Haitian artist in mid-career. The new works feature the marketplace scenes, which the gallery has exhibited previously, and also a wonderful array of Haitian “cabotage” boat paintings – these are the market, or trading boats, which sail up and down the coast of Haiti. 
The artist Jean-Pierre Straub came to visit Anguilla yesterday, and I was pleased as always to see his recent work. These marquetry pieces are superb as always, painstakingly created using wood veneers, and are of a smaller scale than many of his sculptures I’ve shown through the years. The new ones are hanging on a long wall together, and they and the early Iris Lewis painting really compliment each other. They are all illustrated in detail in his section on this site. Just click on “artists”, then click on his work.
