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Jonathan Guy-Gladding (JAG) first came to the
Caribbean in 1999 after leaving a job as a computer artist at
Sesame Street for a two year stint in the Peace Corps. Assigned
to teach woodworking in the beautiful St. Lucian village of
Laborie, he found there inspiration to return to painting in his
spare time and an unending ending supply of rich subject matter
in the faces and postures of the uniformed schoolchildren, the
people going about their daily lives, and the traditional
cultural aspects that make that village such a wonderful and
distinctive place.
After completing his Peace Corps service, he
decided to pursue his art full time and since then has exhibited
extensively throughout the Caribbean, England, and the US. He
has been the recipient of numerous awards, twice winning The
National Oil and Acrylic Painters’
Society (NOAPS) USA Award of Excellence and the Narrative
Excellence Award, First Prize in the Cape Cod Art Association’s
National Open, and numerous other prizes along with being given
Signature Status by NOAPS. He continues to live and paint in
Laborie, St. Lucia where he still finds inspiration and inspires
others in the occasional workshops he gives at the local schools
and the murals he paints in the village.
This is his fourth exhibition in Trinidad and
he is excited to be at Horizons again where he had his first
Trinidad show in 2006. |
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