A Quiet Beach with Boats
This watercolour is both a beautifully executed study of light and colour and a carefully rendered illustration of maritime industry. Sibley skirts away from idealised Caribbean representations by using realistically earthy sepia colours, to the effect that his painting is both atmospheric and expressive. Both Sibley and his wife would revisit this location, adjacent to Morgan’s Harbour in West Bay, frequently over their years painting from nature or “en plein air”.
About the Artist
Jeremy Sibley
b. 1929
Born in Jamaica, Jeremy Sibley studied architecture in Canada and practised in Jamaica before moving to the Cayman Islands with his artist wife, Joanne Sibley, in 1980. His work has been exhibited several times with the Visual Art Society and in Salt Spring, British Columbia, and is represented by the Kennedy Gallery and Pure Art in the Cayman Islands. His work is featured in Art of the Cayman Islands, the Islands’ first formal art history (Scala Fine Art Publishers Ltd.: Fall 2016). NGCI exhibitions include Watermarks (2005), A Legacy of Light (2016), Tropical Visions (2019), and Seascapes: Maritime Art from the National Collection in Little Cayman (2020) at the Little Cayman Museum.
