SAN­DRA L BLOOD

On June 12 at the Lloyd Best In­sti­tute of The Caribbean in Tu­na­puna, the 24th so­lo ex­hi­bi­tion by artist Kei­th Ward, Tints Tones and Tex­tures, opened to the pub­lic.

On dis­play are 35 re­cent works that ex­plore a va­ri­ety of sub­ject mat­ter mov­ing com­fort­ably from fig­u­ra­tive ex­pres­sions, im­pres­sion­is­tic land­scapes and ab­stract im­agery.

Ward, who teach­es art, de­sign, draw­ing and paint­ing at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies Open Cam­pus, said, “A pic­ture paints a thou­sand words. Art ex­em­pli­fies that nar­ra­tive on sev­er­al lev­els, and I cap­ti­vate com­po­si­tions, vi­brant and in­tu­itive use of colour, emo­tive ti­tles and tex­tured sur­faces, uni­fy­ing all and breath­ing life and mean­ing to my can­vas­es. It’s sym­bol­ic and unique to me.”

The po­et and cre­ativ­i­ty coach, who held his first so­lo ex­hi­bi­tion in 1989, moves com­fort­ably be­tween medi­ums and sub­ject mat­ter.

His art­work is dis­tinct and ra­di­ates with vi­bran­cy and strong an­i­mat­ed line qual­i­ty.

His Caribbean themes fre­quent­ly ad­dress el­e­ments of move­ment and light whilst pro­ject­ing a cel­e­bra­tion of life and pos­i­tiv­i­ty of the hu­man spir­it.

A self-taught artist, Ward has ex­pand­ed his cre­ative pur­suits to dra­ma, com­pos­ing and singing ca­lyp­soes, film­mak­ing and set de­sign. He has writ­ten two books of po­ems, Re­flec­tions and Mo­ments of In­de­ci­sion.

He is the founder of Arts for De­vel­op­ment, Ex­pres­sion and Ther­a­py, and con­ducts art ther­a­py, team build­ing and cre­ativ­i­ty work­shops.

Ward’s art­work can be found in many pri­vate and cor­po­rate col­lec­tions through­out T&T as well as Eu­rope, North Amer­i­ca and Africa.

The ex­hi­bi­tion will be open dai­ly un­til June 22.

For fur­ther in­for­ma­tion, call or What­sApp: (868) 740-2839.