In 2017 Shan­non Hutchin­son, once again, re­ceived crit­i­cal ac­claim for her in­ter­est­ing per­spec­tive on light and colour in land­scape with her ex­hi­bi­tion “Chas­ing the Light”. As an air­line pi­lot, she has a bird’s eye view of the Caribbean topog­ra­phy every day from her “of­fice”, the cock­pit. This year, she is set to show­case a new col­lec­tion of work en­ti­tled “Dusk”, which con­tains 50 paint­ings, many of which cap­ture the essence of the Caribbean at the twi­light hours from Hutchin­son’s unique per­spec­tive from above.

Shan­non’s love for avi­a­tion and art grew si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly from a young age. She grew up in the avi­a­tion in­dus­try and al­ways as­pired to fly. Shan­non’s artis­tic ca­reer was a suc­cess from in­cep­tion when she start­ed show­ing her work as a teenag­er. By the age of 17 she had al­so gained her pri­vate pi­lot’s li­cence, and now, years lat­er, she is a First Of­fi­cer with Caribbean Air­lines. She al­so holds a Bach­e­lor of Fine Arts De­gree from OCAD Uni­ver­si­ty in Toron­to. In her fi­nal year, she wrote her the­sis “Tran­sience in Time and Space in Flight” in Italy where she learned how to make her own paint with raw pig­ments and cop­per dust, a tech­nique which she still us­es to­day and can be seen in the glossy seascapes in her up­com­ing show.

Over the last 20 years, her art has won awards and been show­cased in well over 50 ex­hi­bi­tions and col­lec­tions world­wide, most no­tably in Cana­da, Italy and the Caribbean.

The ex­hib­it opens at Hori­zons Art Gallery on Tues­day from 7 pm to 8:30 pm and will con­tin­ue un­til Oc­to­ber 6. The Gallery is lo­cat­ed at #37 Mu­cu­rapo Road, St James. Open­ing hours are 9 am. to 5:30 pm Mon­days to Fri­days and 9 am to 1 pm on Sat­ur­days. Please call 628-9769 for more in­for­ma­tion.