Artists
Moira Abbott
Moira Abbott studied textile design at Manchester College of Art, United Kingdom, and worked as a conservation officer at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
James Adams
After qualifying as an Art Teacher, James Adams took on roles as Artist-in-Residence at The King’s School Worcester, England.
Gretchen Allen
Gretchen Allen was an award-winning multimedia journalist – a radio and television broadcaster, a newspaper reporter and editor, a photographer.
Jawara Alleyne
Jawara Alleyne is a Caymanian artist and fashion designer whose work deals with questions of cultural identity from a Caribbean perspective.
Maureen Andersen Berry
Maureen Andersen Berry studied art at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and gained an art teacher’s diploma from the Institute of Education, London.
Marlena Anglin
Born in West Bay, Marlena Anglin learned thatching from her mother and soon became a highly skilled rope maker and weaver of baskets, hats and other items.
Shane “Dready” Aquârt
Shane Aquârt, who signs his art ‘Dready’, has a whimsical graphic style influenced by his rich mixture of cultural experiences.
Wray Banker
Born in West Bay, Grand Cayman, Wray Banker studied graphic design in Houston and is a founding member of the Native Sons artist collective.
Edrid Banks Jr
Edrid Banks Jr. developed a love of music and singing that later evolved toward the visual arts, particularly photography and painting.
Margaret Barwick
New Zealand-born Margaret Barwick arrived in the Cayman Islands from New Zealand in 1977 via the Solomon Islands, Kiribati and Malawi.
Jan Barwick
Jan Barwick was born in New Zealand and spent her childhood in the Solomon Islands, Kiribati and Malawi before becoming a resident of the Cayman Islands.
Babbity Barwick
Babbity Barwick moved from Uganda to Northern Ireland in her childhood and gained a BA in graphic design at Central Saint Martins in 1982.
Heidi Bassett Blair
Born in Toronto, Heidi Bassett Blair has a BA from McGill University and an MA from New York University; she also studied at Parsons Paris.
April Bending
Canadian artist April Bending resided in the Cayman Islands for ten years, during which time she was an active member of the local arts scene.
Joseph Bernard
Joseph Bernard was born in Peachtree City, Georgia and studied Fine Arts & English at the University of Mississippi from 1993-1998.
John Bird
John Bird is a furniture designer who trained at the prestigious Parnham College in Dorset, UK under the tutelage of John Makepeace.
Lois Brezinski
A painter, textile designer, printmaker and gallerist, Lois Brezinski received her formal art education at the Rhode Island School of Design.
David Bridgeman
British-born artist Bridgeman arrived in the Cayman Islands in 1987. His work explores the duality between life in the Caribbean and his country of origin.
John Broad
John Broad graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a degree in painting and drawing, and from the University of London with a teaching qualification.
Matt Brown
Matt Brown is a Caymanian actor, animator, filmmaker, and radio personality. He holds a degree in recording arts and has worked in media production.
Gladwyn K. “Miss Lassie” Bush
A fourth-generation Caymanian, Miss Lassie was a self-taught artist who began painting at the age of 62 following a visionary experience.
Cayman Quilters
Cayman Quilters is a collective dedicated to continuing the long tradition of craft in the Cayman Islands and raising funds for charitable organisations.
Debbie Chase van der Bol
Debbie Chase van der Bol moved to the Cayman Islands in the early 1980s, opening Pure Art soon after and joining the island’s burgeoning art scene.
Randy Chollette
George Town–born Randy Chollette is an intuitive, self-taught artist who earned recognition early in his career by winning ‘Best in Show’ at Blue.
Chris Christian
Grand Cayman–born Chris Christian is a self-taught artist who began painting in the early 2000s, joining the Native Sons artist collective soon after.
Penny Clifford
Primarily self-taught, Penny Clifford began drawing and painting plants in the early 1990s when she illustrated the Wild Trees in the Cayman Islands book.
Carmen Conolly
Born in East End, Grand Cayman, Carmen Conolly began basket making as a child, learning thatching techniques from her aunt.
Alan Darvill
Alan Darvill became interested in pottery over 40 years ago. Skilled in a wide variety of ceramics, he focuses on Majolica decorated functional earthenware.
Frans De Backer
Frans De Backer started his film career in 1988 at Belgian National Television. For seven years, he worked as an underwater cinematographer in Grand Cayman.
Al Ebanks
Born in George Town, sculptor and painter Al Ebanks was awarded a scholarship from the Cayman National Cultural Foundation in 1995 to study sculpture.
Davin Ebanks
Born in Grand Cayman, Davin Ebanks acquired a BA in Graphic Design at Anderson University, Indiana, and an MFA in Glass Sculpture at Kent State University, Ohio.
Aston Ebanks
A self-taught conceptual artist, Jamaica-born Aston Ebanks now resides permanently in Grand Cayman, after stints in Switzerland and Western Samoa.
Deal Ebanks
Deal Ebanks works primarily with traditional Caymanian materials, producing objects such as gigs, calavans, singing kites, walking sticks and wauri boards.
Harvey Ebanks
Harvey Ebanks was a World War II veteran who began painting at the age of 75, having been moved after his retirement “to draw old-time things.”
Kerwin Ebanks
Kerwin Ebanks received his BA in Arts Education from Evansville University, Indiana and began pursuing painting seriously in 2010.
Annalee Ebanks
Born in Cayman Brac, Annalee Ebanks learned to master complex thatching techniques from her father and became an active teacher of her craft.
Annie Joy Ebanks
Born in Cayman Brac, Mrs Annie Joy Ebanks began straw work at the age of five and made her first basket at the age of six under the teaching of her mother.
Rose May Ebanks
Born in West Bay, Grand Cayman, Rose May Ebanks was taught thatching techniques by her mother, who in turn had been taught by her own mother.
Kaitlyn Elphinstone
Kaitlyn Elphinstone is an interdisciplinary artist who works in digital media and assemblage. She studied visual art and art history at the University of Toronto.
Kathryn Elphinstone
Kathryn Elphinstone studied art at the University of Toronto, Canada. She received a BA majoring in Visual Arts and a B.Ed. from the same institution.
Horacio Esteban
Born in Cuba and raised in Cayman Brac, Horacio Esteban is a sculptor and jeweller known for his use of the local semi-precious stone Caymanite.
Virginia “Auntie V” Foster
Originally from Belize, Virginia “Auntie V” Foster arrived in the Cayman Islands in 1977 and has since worked as an educator.
Mark Frazer
Mark Frazer received a degree in arts education from Middlesex Polytechnic, United Kingdom, and arrived in Grand Cayman in 1985 to teach art.
Alyssa Janae Gilbert
Alyssa Janae (Gilbert) is a multidisciplinary fashion designer born and raised in Grand Cayman. Her work was featured in the 3rd Cayman Islands Biennial.
Lorna Griggs
Lorna Griggs moved to Cayman from the United States. As a highly portable and versatile medium, watercolour became the medium of choice for this artist.
Teresa Grimes
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Teresa Grimes received a BA in classical archaeology and classical art from the University of Maryland.
Ruth Harvey
Ruth Harvey was a prolific artist who worked in oil, watercolour, acrylic, pastel, and linocut. She first visited Grand Cayman in 1964.
Stewart Holmes
Stewart Holmes is an artist based in the Cayman Islands known primarily for painting realistic scenes that evoke an idyllic vision of island life.
Ben Hudson
Born in Belize, Ben Hudson is a filmmaker and studied commercial art at PTEC, Florida. He teamed with Matt Brown to create several music and video projects.
Shakir Husein
Guyanese born artist Shakir Husein was actively involved and exhibited with the Cayman Islands Visual Arts Society from 1982-1988.
Bendel Hydes
Bendel Hydes studied fine art at Liverpool College of Art and Canterbury College of Art in England and subsequently received his B.A. from Clark University.
Isy B.
Isy Obi is the founder of Isy B., the award-winning fashion brand from the Cayman Islands. Her aesthetic is rooted in design that tells a story.
John Reno Jackson
John Reno Jackson is an emerging contemporary Caymanian painter. He attended courses in painting and drawing at the London Art Academy.
Andre Jennings
Andre Jennings discovered his love of art while growing up in the Cayman Islands and recalls being fascinated by its ability to portray powerful emotions.
Paige Jordison
Paige Jordison began creating art at an early age, being raised around her father’s art gallery in Grand Cayman.
Marc Laurenson
Working principally in a Pop Art-inspired style, Marc Laurenson’s practice embraces a large range of artistic media.
Maureen Lazarus
Maureen Lazarus is a Caymanian artist whose practice encompasses painting, collage, and works on paper.
Mary Lee
Mary Lee was part of the circle of artists associated with the formation and early development of the Visual Arts Society in Cayman in the late 1970s.
Charles Long
Born in West Africa, Charles Long grew up in Swaziland and England, where he attended Farnham School of Art.
Chris Mann
Chris Mann was born in England and studied Fine Art and Ceramics at Goldsmiths College, London, before moving to the Cayman Islands in 1987 to teach art.
Linda McCann
Linda McCann is an artist working and living between Dublin and Grand Cayman. She studied fine art at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.
Nickola McCoy-Snell
Nickola McCoy-Snell studied art at University College of the Cayman Islands. She rose to prominence when she won the first McCoy Prize for Excellence in Caymanian Art.
Sarah McDougall
Sarah McDougall graduated in Costume Design from Liverpool School of Art, after which she enjoyed 20 years working on costumes for stage and screen.
Dawn McTaggart
Dawn McTaggart was an artist focusing predominantly on idyllic depictions of traditional Caymanian scenes, native flora and fauna.
Ed Oliver
Ed Oliver worked in advertising and industrial design in the United States before he moved to the Cayman Islands in 1969.
Olly & Suzi
Olly Williams and Suzi Winstanley specialise in the collaborative painting of wildlife, working directly within the environments that they depict.
Carol Owen
Carol Owen came to the Cayman Islands in 1995 as the wife of former Governor John Wynne Owen, CBE. In addition to landscapes, she has painted many portraits.
Leigh Pawling
Leigh Pawling is an artist who was active in the Cayman arts scene in the 1990s, exhibiting her work in Cayman and in Kingston, Pennsylvania.
Courtney Platt
A self-taught photographer, Courtney Platt moved to the Cayman Islands in 1983. He is primarily a documentary photographer.
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Powell
Born in West Bay, Grand Cayman, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Powell learned the skill of thatching from her mother, who made baskets for use on the family farm.
Yonier Powery
Yonier Powery Serrano was born on the Isle of Youth, Cuba. Commencing his artistic studies in 1999, he joined the workshop of renowned artist Agustin Villafaña before moving to Wilfredo Lam’s Professional Academy of Visual Arts in the Isle of Youth. There he learned to master a wide range of techniques, from drawing and painting […]
Miguel Powery
Born in Grand Cayman, Miguel Powery is a self-taught painter and sculptor who carves black coral and semi-precious stones.
Patrick Quin
Patrick Quin was an American artist who visited Grand Cayman frequently in the mid to late 1960s, creating prints over the course of his visits to sell.
Pippa Ridley
Pippa Ridley is one of Cayman’s leading painters. She was born in Grand Cayman and is currently based in London.
Saba
A self-taught artist, Saba (born Csaba Korsos) moved to the Cayman Islands in 1992 to teach and was immediately inspired by Caymanian heritage.
Rasitha Sanjeewa
Sanjeewa moved to the Cayman Islands in the late 2000s and came to prominence by winning first prize in the National Gallery’s 2012 Ogier Art Award.
Brandon Saunders
Brandon Saunders is a young Caymanian artist currently studying for his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in the UK.
Helene Schindler
Helene Schindler was one of several expatriates who arrived in Cayman following the economic boom of the 1970s, joining a group of artists.
Renate “Ren” Seffer
Born in Australia, Renate “Ren” Seffer travelled extensively before settling in Grand Cayman in 1995, when she began painting full time.
Mikael Seffer
Born in the United States, Mikael Seffer moved to the Cayman Islands as a child, an experience that left an indelible mark on his artwork.
Joanne Sibley
Joanne Sibley arrived in the Cayman Islands from Canada in 1980 after living in Jamaica, where she had established herself as a successful artist.
Gail Sibley
Gail Sibley was born to artistic parents, Jeremy and Joanne Sibley, and brought up in Kingston, Jamaica.
Jeremy Sibley
Born in Jamaica, Jeremy Sibley studied architecture in Canada and practised in Jamaica before moving to the Cayman Islands with his artist wife.
Gordon Solomon
Gordon Solomon is a painter and musician born in George Town, Grand Cayman, who studied Fine Art at the University of Superior Art, Cuba.
Nasaria Suckoo Chollette
Born in George Town, Grand Cayman, Nasaria Suckoo Chollette received a BA in Theatre and an MA in Educational Theatre from New York University.
Karoly Szücs
Hungarian-born metal fabricator and sculptor Karoly Szücs moved to the Cayman Islands in the early 2000s.
Simon Tatum
Simon Tatum is currently pursuing his MFA in Sculpture and Expanded Media at Kent State University and completed his BA at the University of Missouri.
Cecilia Urdaneta
Cecilia Urdaneta studied ceramics at Stetson University in Florida and at the Akademia di Arte and Studio Giourette in Curaçao.
Roland Verreet
Roland Verreet lives in Germany and is a renowned mechanical engineer. As a creative outlet he studies foraminifera.
Janet Walker
A longstanding member of the Cayman Islands arts community, Janet Walker trained at the Ontario College of Art before moving to the Cayman Islands in 1963.
Avril Ward
Avril Ward is a self-taught artist whose work ranges from the figurative in three-dimensional sculpture, bending towards the abstract in her painting.
CE Whitney
Born in Toronto, Canada, Whitney moved to the Cayman Islands in the 1970s. She is a graduate of City Lit Art and Design, London.
Sue Widmer
The late Sue Widmer arrived in the Cayman Islands in 1982 as an art teacher and later worked as Head of Art at Cayman Prep and High School.
Betty Wood
Born in New Orleans, USA, Betty Wood began to paint the Caymanian landscape in 1979, and was particularly active in the 1980s alongside fellow artists associated with the newly formed Visual Arts Society.