Driftwood
While best known as a watercolourist, Chase van der Bol here wields the medium of pastel to reproduce the soft yet intense hues of the Caribbean, which she strives to convey as faithfully as possible. The realistic treatment, however, is offset by the geometric and almost abstract composition — an aesthetic that can be found in nature itself.
About the Artist
Debbie Chase van der Bol
b. 1956
Debbie Chase van der Bol moved to the Cayman Islands in the early 1980s, opening her store and art gallery Pure Art soon after and joining the Island’s burgeoning art scene. She acquired a BA from Edinboro University, Pennsylvania, with majors in painting and printmaking and minors in drawing and communication graphics. Chase van der Bol is a board member of the Visual Art Society and has exhibited widely with VAS. In 1999, Chase van der Bol won the Radley Gourzong Award from the Cayman National Cultural Foundation. Her work is included in the permanent collections of NGCI and the Cayman Islands National Museum, and is featured in Art of the Cayman Islands, the Islands’ first formal art history (Scala Fine Art Publishers Ltd., Fall 2016). NGCI exhibitions include Emergence (2005), Watermarks (2005), Metamorphoses (2014), All Access (2015), A Legacy of Light (2016), and Tropical Visions (2019).
