Beach Walk with Dogs
This expertly rendered watercolour highlights Sibley’s skill in handling this difficult medium, including her use of reserves (areas left intentionally blank) in the depiction of the sea and sky. This once-secluded stretch of beach in South Sound was a popular haunt for dog walkers and beach strollers, including Sibley and contemporaries such as Janet Walker. A moored boat in the distance and a group of fishermen clustered in the shallows provide a sense of depth to the scene, contrasting the coexisting worlds of leisure and industry.
About the Artist
Joanne Sibley
b. 1930
Joanne Sibley arrived in the Cayman Islands from Canada in 1980 after living in Jamaica, where she had established herself as a successful artist. An interior designer by trade, Sibley has a signature style highly influenced by her formal training in architectural rendering. She has become one of the Islands’ most prolific and recognisable artists and was awarded the 1995 Creativity Prize by CNCF. Her 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 the solo show Watermarks (2005), Faces and Figures (2007), Our Story of Art (2013), Metamorphoses (2014), All Access (2015), A Legacy of Light (2016), Mediating Self (2017), Tropical Visions (2019), Seascapes: Maritime Art from the National Collection in Little Cayman (2020) at the Little Cayman Museum, Saltwater in Their Veins (2020) and The People’s Collection: A 25-Year Cultural Legacy (2022).
