Morgan’s Harbour
One of a number of favoured spots for painting outdoors, or “en plein air”, to which Joanne Sibley and other artists would return to frequently, this sheltered boat landing in West Bay provides a scenic outlook over Grand Cayman’s North Sound. Sibley here chooses to focus on the fishing boats moored on the harbour’s wooden jetty, with outriggers (tall poles for trailing long fishing line) and the vessels’ modern design pointing to the growing popularity of fishing charters in Cayman’s burgeoning tourism industry in the 1980s.
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).
