STANLEY Greaves, the Guyanese prize-winning artist who is partly responsible for producing the book “Art in the Caribbean”, calls the publication a collaborative work between himself and Dr. Anne Walmsley.

“Art in the Caribbean” is a phenomenal decade-long compilation of art against a timeline of Caribbean artists. The aim of the volume is to make children examine the work of their own Caribbean artists, Greaves said at the opening of the National Gallery’s twentieth anniversary exhibition on Friday at Castellani House.
The aim of the Exhibition is to showcase the “dynamism of visual art of a high standard…as we see ourselves represented in form and colour, in challenging shapes and new materials, as artists create a conversation with the people of the nation that they represent,” a National Gallery statement said.
Greaves said he was saddened to see people’s works of art being treated as junk and things of no value, and therefore the book would help to eliminate the stigma attached to art, while altering the perspectives of people regarding art.
Greaves made presentations on twenty images splattered throughout the book. He said those represent a diversity of Caribbean artists and their thoughts locked away in their creations. In the composition, there are in the region over a hundred images created by artists that span a timeline from the 1940s to the 2000.
He added that Art in the Caribbean was ten years in the making, and was originally compiled for the English-speaking Caribbean, but was altered for other people in the region.
He made presentations on the works of Philip Moore, Bernadette Persaud, Betsy Karim, Trinidadian art work, Haitian art work and Surinamese art, and also images of his own work.