Sometimes light emerges from unimaginable darkness.
When the pandemic gripped the world and sent us all into lockdown, three Trinidadian women artists ventured out of their homes and out of the gloom to find the light abundantly clear in Gran Couva, in Central Trinidad…
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Beverley with her seaside inspired, "Mayaro Again" - Photo credit Carolyn Correia (c) 2017
Twenty seventeen, the current exhibition by Beverley Fitzwilliam Harries at 101 Art Gallery, was created in acrylics and inspired by TT's landscapes and people.
The artist says TT and the Caribbean are her muse and she could not picture life anywhere else. Armed with her colouring books and craft kits in her growing years, she was constantly seeking ways to explore her creativity...
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Tucker Valley
Beverley Fitzwilliam Harries is one of the most admired artists living and working in the country today. Admirers of Beverley's distinctive style will not be disappointed by the pieces featured in her upcoming show, at 101 Art Gallery, opening on October 14th at 10am to two in the afternoon. Featured are the stylized figures in settings and poses evoking Caribbean life that we have come to associate with a Harries piece. Beverley's use of color is bold and brash, and the effect is riveting. Her botanicals are represented in a riot of color, and even manicured landscapes take on a wild, primeval and untamed air under her brush. They are luscious and vivid, and they draw one inward...
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Installation using Coffee Pigment for Starbucks, South Park by Beverley Fitzwilliam-Harries
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Local colour refers to the customs and typical features of a place. In art, the term also means the actual colour of an object as it appears in nature. In her fourth solo show, Beverley Fitzwilliam Harries takes T&T’s local colour—including a line of hungry customers at a doubles stand, the ice cream vendor or palette man, a view of the Wildfowl Trust and a crowd of coconut trees standing in the heat—and amplifies it by deviating from actual hues. Her colour usage is unapologetically loud and energetic...
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Purple Patrea
Fitzwilliam Harries' brushwork is confident, immediate, graceful. The buttery quality of her acrylics would easily convince the viewer that they were oils. Her emotional use of high key primary and secondary colours calls to mind the Expressionists like Derain and Vlaminck, and perhaps even early Kandinsky, but the substitutions of observed colour with 'irrational' colour so beloved of the old Fauve masters are not so unnatural in the florid reality of the tropical Caribbean landscape. Here, a lavender tree trunk or even a yellow sky seems more possible to evoke, whether through observation, memory or fanciful whim. Fitzwilliam Harries conjures these spectacles of light, form and texture with her heart held out before her eyes, and with a masterful hand close behind...
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