:: W.I.P. Commissioned Fine Art Print ::

I have been working on this commissioned print for a while now. I was contacted by a client who saw the final print in the edition for the "Perpetrated Inside" which was sold to a popular radio personality on FAME95 FM. The prospective client was head over heels when she saw the print and quickly formulated an idea for a gift for a friend. "I have to get something like this..." she said, as her eyes glowed and stared at the print. She quickly shot me the idea, and prayed for the best. I'm here working on the piece as I type now. I pray all goes well! As usual comments are more than welcome. Thank you.

:: a small walk down memory lane ::

A great day is is huh?? :) Well, it s for me. I decided to look back on some of my old art work and that I had done in my final year at the Edna Manley College. To my surprise I had stumbled up on on one og my most successful lithographic prints. The photos below is the process of the printing directly from the stone.

It honestly was a tedious process, but when I saw the result, man, was I excited to print the edition! Check out the photos, and as usual comments are more than welcome!

Prints are still available for sale!

:: RJR Group's Annual Report 2010 ::

Over the last three months I have been working on the conceptualizing and designing of the Radio Jamaica Limited 2009-2010 Annual Report. I has been such a task to page by page design and come to an agreement with the clients. Here's a quick preview of how it will look. I pray you'll enjoy. Feel free to leave constructive criticism. Thanks!

:: 4 sight ::

:: 4 sight exhibition ::

The Kingston On The Edge Urban Art Festival is a summer shot of adrenaline for anybody open to new sights, sounds and flavours. This is especially true for younger artists like us, avid KOTE goers seeking to deepen our KOTE experience by becoming more active participants. We, Monique Lofters, Warren Buckle, Kori Solomon and Karl Fagan are young artists new to the local art scene and eager to become more involved in it. As such we are proposing to host an exhibition during KOTE June 2010 entitled 4sight.

The exhibition would showcase a selection of painting and photography works by four recent graduates of the Edna Manley College, all of whom have completed their tenure with a BFA. As a quartet our work plays upon chosen aspects of daily life and human nature. Through photography Warren Buckle investigates intimacy, in attempt to present a defining visuals of the experience. In his own words, “The images are interpretations of the personal and private nature of intimacy. Observations of the forms they take; the silent conversations of bodies sculpted by light and captured by digital lens.”

Digital photography is also the medium chosen by Kori Solomon to capture ‘the simplicity of life’, as he poetically puts it,“We would see, and yet are blind to, the things we interact with everyday, never noticing their true beauty. These macro photographs seek to carry the viewer on a journey into a familiar, yet unexplored world, one of small details, clarity and simplicity.” Employing her talent as a painter, Monique Lofters explores the repressed and subverted elements of human nature, creating colourful interpretations of closeted desires as food for thought.

Last of the four, Karl Fagan taps into his sensibility as a graphic designer to present mixed media pieces of “Deadly Virtues”, insightful and playfully cynical works that explores modern Jamaican values. As a whole the exhibition aims to juxtapose similar mediums by artists with distinct approaches. It embraces diversity while being tethered by related subject matter and a shared train of thought.

The Jamaica Pegasus Gallery, operated by Curator Vera Inez, and located at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, has agreed to host the proposed exhibition. The Gallery regularly provides such opportunities and is host to exhibitions held on a tri-monthly basis, which give budding and established artists an opportunity to share their works with the public. The exhibit, entitled 4sight, would primarily occupy the front area the gallery. The Jamaica Pegasus Gallery is located in the heart of new Kinston but generally is frequented by guests of the hotel and patrons, KOTE is a great way to introduce the wider public to another place in Kingston to view and enjoy local art.

In keeping with the spirit of KOTE 4sight offers a chance for viewers to experience something other than what they’ve had before, an opportunity to be provoked, comforted, amused, or maybe something deeper, by the work of four young Jamaican artists, each with something to say about life, lust and simple joys.

:: JCDC Visual Arts Competition and Exhibit 2010::

Okay, so fine! i proved myself wrong! I pulled through and fought to make it work. I challenged myself to have three completed pieces for the JCDC Visual Arts Competition and Exhibition 2010; and I did! I continued with the same concept of how society has affected the youth in Jamaica. This time I've made the prints more intimate. I allowed the viewer to be apart of the art work. Allowing them to be one with it.

Anyhow, I'm praying that at least one of my three are chosen for the exhibit as well as make it for the competition. Psh! I'm praying I make it to the award ceremony! Well we'll see huh?! These are the not the final pieces, but I chose to show you a preview of how they look... Comments are much welcomed...

"Testimonial of a Young man"

"Struggles to Find Me..."

:: approaching exhibition ::

As the days draw neigh, so does the pressure seem to heighten... The (Jamaica Cultural Development Commission) J.C.D.C. National exhibition deadline date comes closer. I have thought of having 3 entries this year... Hmm? I wonder if I'm capable of getting the emerging artist of the year again? LOL, that would be something huh?

Its May 9th I've just come to some liking of one of the digital prints i've been working on for quite some while now... Getting this art work (completed) and to the printers by Monday morning is another story. I pray this will work in my favour!

Anyhow, here's a preview of the print.