Why I do what I do
As a toddler, I attempted to draw portraits of my father, so I was told.This was not a passing phase, as was the general expectation.My preoccupation with mark-making continued beyond my toddler years. It eventually became a household problem when I extended this activity to our apartment walls.
Many years later, an established artist in Trinidad made me aware of the career possibilities of this artistic ability, which I so naturally took for granted. At that point in time, my only desire to improve my drawing and painting skills assumed new significance and suddenly became a meaningful aspiration. It was this happy discovery that eventually led me to Goldsmiths College School of Art in London.
Writing, on the other hand, came out of my childhood addiction to novels. Perhaps it was a way of filling the void at the age of nine made by the death of my mother. Being a child with an over-active imagination, I yearned to live the excitement and adventure I read about in those novels. I turned to writing my own stories with me as the hero. As an adult painter and poet, I have discovered a way of being. I continue my exploration of the way painting and poetry can be interrelated.
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