West Bay Home
Typical of the artist’s oeuvre and predilection for capturing scenes of old Cayman — in particular traditional homes and gardens, often in the area around Chase van der Bol’s own house in South Sound — this watercolour captures a traditional Caymanian cottage in West Bay, Grand Cayman. Focusing on the detail of the old wooden fence and Dutch door, Chase van der Bol skilfully combines pen and ink drawing with watercolour to illustrate this picturesque scene.
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).
