This blog post is rather different than most. I’m featuring two quite different 
works into the gallery – a new painting by the always superb Stafford Schliefer from Jamaica, and a vintage work by Gerard Paul (born 1943, Port-au-Prince Haiti). It’s a fabulous painting of a “Marchande de Toile” or “Textile Vendor”. Her bamboo yardstick, and oversized scissors make for a wonderful image. Interestingly, the artist seemingly moved to the U.S. in the early 1980’s, and after a successful artistic career, literally vanished…..
The Schliefer is quite wonderful too. In “The Catch”, his fisherman are classic figures in a Schliefer work – full of vitality and painted in exquisite colour. We get an extra little bonus in this painting – a superb landscape, which looks remarkably like Anguilla with St. Martin in the background!
