Wonderful tropical flowers, cottages, cactuses, banana and palm trees all served as living models for her paintings. The beauty and sunlight she sees everyday have become her source of inspiration and have marked her love for the bright colors that are the base of a…
Marlies Schoenmakers (1961, Eindhoven, the Netherlands – residing in Curaçao) Growing up in the Netherlands with its straight lines, organized landscape and equal lifestyle, moving to the island of Curaçao in 1995 was the best thing she ever did. She immediately fell in love with…
Ced Ride (1944, Curaçao) Ced Ride was born on July 14, 1944 as Cedric Ridderplaat in Curaçao, in the Otrabanda area. He is the 4th child of a family of 9 children. His parents are Lourdes and Pascual Ridderplaat. As he was born in a very…
Brigitte Wawoe (1939, Heidelberg, Germany – residing in the Netherlands) Brigitte lived in Curaçao from 1967 till 1978. During that period she learned to understand the island and developed a special relation with it. After leaving for London in 1978 she returned to Curaçao regularly…
Ailsa Anastatia, (1978, Curaçao) Ailsa Anastatia was born in Curacao in 1978. She is an abstract/figurative painter. She works with one specific theme: space. Space in the broadest sense of the word. Universal, spiritual, architectural, exterior, interior spaces and landscapes. She wants her paintings to be…
Asyla ten Holt (1953 – Curaçao) Aysla ten Holt was born on the island of Curaçao. With her Antillean and Dutch ancestry forming an interesting pathway to her career in the arts, she began her academic studies at a university in Holland. After completing her…
Antonia Guzmán (1954, Buenos Aires (AR) – residing in Argentina) Antonia Guzman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1954. She graduated from the National School of Fine Arts “Prilidiano Pueyrredon” in 1978 and currently lives and works in Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The first impact of…
Anton Vrede was born on December 6, 1953 in Curacao and currently lives in the Netherlands. Vrede composes figurative but flat performances in his work, in which animals refer to exotic stories and are given human characteristics. In his sketchy elaborate artworks animal figures dance or play against an…
Jean Girigori (1948 – residing in the Dominican Republic) Jean Girigori was born on a ship between the Dominican Republic and Curaçao. She is the child of a Dominican mother and an Antillean father. Many of her paintings illustrate the poor life in Haiti and…
Wilson Garcia (1938, Curaçao – residing in the Netherlands) Wilson Garcia was born in Curaçao and currently lives and works in the Netherlands. His career was formed in Curaçao where he worked at the Fine Arts Academy and at the Teacher Training school (Akademia Pedagogiko).…
M.H. (Boy) Namias de Crasto He makes paintings in oil, acrylic and mixed media as well as sculptures in clay and bronze. He works as an engraver and calligrapher and he also manufactures ceramics. Boy works from his emotions. He looks at his work for…
Hipólito Ocalia (1916, Curaçao – † 1984) Ocalia was a painter with hardly any formal training. He started painting when he was very young and he never stopped since. Everything he knew about painting he learned himself. He had an intuitive sense of color and…