Three Palms
Depicting Grand Cayman’s North Side district, this painting has all the quintessential hallmarks of the watercolour medium, from its layered transparency of pigment to its successful use of ‘reserves’ (areas of the paper left unpainted) in its depiction of sky and clouds. Sibley focuses on the incidental detail of his domestic scene, from the brightly coloured washing strung along the clothesline, to the vibrancy of the midday sunshine as it casts a play of light and shadow on the cottages’ white walls.
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.
