Cottages with Clothes Line
This idyllic scene depicts a quiet village of Caymanian cottages, with a single clothes line hanging between one of the houses and a nearby palm tree, drying the morning’s daily laundry. Stylistically, Sibley’s image is reflective of the picturesque aesthetic favoured by many artists in Cayman in the 1980s and 1990s.
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.
