Smith Road Oval
This watercolour captures the peaceful surroundings of the George Town cricket pitch, which is frequently home to avian visitors, represented by the flock of egrets gathered in the grassy outfield. The artist focuses on the simple detail of a wooden cricket bat and stumps, foregrounding these elements that infuse an air of timeless tranquillity.
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).
