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…
José Flores (1964, Curaçao – residing in the Netherlands) José Flores was born in Curaçao. Since 1985 he has been living and working in Eindhoven (the Netherlands). When you study the work of José over the past four years, you’ll notice that much has changed.…
Ariadne Faries (1968, Curaçao) Ariadne Faries lives and works by the more spiritual meaning of the following words: “To be is to feel, to feel is to open up, to open up is to let ‘life’ into your life”. Life is the sum of what…
Paula Evers (1942, the Netherlands) Paula is an intuitive painter. She works and processes from her intuition. Nothing is made up in advance. Everything depends on her emotions and mood of the moment. Her paintings come about gradually. Her hands possess all the technical abilities…
Tanya van Esveld (residing in the Netherlands) “With the use of different materials a variety of patterns and subtle details I make playful paintings with a story, beautifully designed styling objects and wall paintings that challenge kids and their parents to explore. To get the most…
Heleen Cornet was born in the Netherlands. She obtained a degree in education and a master’s degree in fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Amersfoort (the Netherlands). After having lived in Norway for a few years she moved to Bonaire in 1975, where…
Margaritha “Miss Lee” Hodge (1899 St. Maarten – †1998 Curaçao) Margarita Eliza Hodge – better known as Miss Lee Hodge – had wanted to settle down with her sweetheart in St. Maarten but instead, her parents sent her off to her two brothers and sister…
Winfred Dania (1950 Aruba, †2012 Bonaire) Winfred was born in Aruba. At the age of five, he was sent to the Netherlands to attend a special school. Winfred was deaf. In the Netherlands, he was trained in lip-reading. He’d already learned to communicate in Papiamentu. The school gave him…
Ras Mosera (1955, St. Lucia – currently recides in St. Martin) While Mosera is a bold contemporary expressionist with a tendency for abstraction, he brings a strong sense of structure to his canvases. As an artist with great knowledge of color and surfaces, he knows…
Wim de Waal (1934, Curaçao) Started painting at a young age. At the age of 25, after some personal problems, he intensifies his painting. All his work expresses the same message: the unity of the cosmos. De Waal is of the opinion that there is…
Philip ‘Fifi’ Rademaker (1944, Curaçao) Philip Rademaker is a multi-talented artist. Besides being a gifted painter, he is also well reputed among others as a poet, writer, actor, scene director and illustrator. His poems are striking by his expressive and flowery use of the Papiamentu…