The National Gallery of Art is hosting an exhibition titled ‘The Colour of Truth.’
In a press release the Gallery said the works being exhibited are from two recent Fine Arts graduates: Travell Blackman and Sandra Alleyne.
Blackman, the Best Painting Student and Best Graduating Student at the Burrowes School of Art in 2004 and winner of prizes in three National Watercolour and Drawing competitions presents the majority of pieces. The pieces display Blackman’s “noted technical skills in representational art as well as his recent experimentation with an abstract palette and pattern linked to his instincts for figurative design and form,” the release said.
Alleyne previously a student and later a tutor in Art History and English at the Burrowes School and a graduate of the University of Guyana Fine Art degree programme offers two large paintings and “some finely worked drawings with symbolic and personal forms and themes which complement Blackman’s interests.”
Both technically adept, the artists works share an underlying theme of appreciation and exploration of life in all its forms, as reflected in their titles such as ‘Family Heritage’, ‘In the Midst of Life’ and the series ‘Vines of Life’, ‘Nature Series’ and ‘The Colour of Truth.’
The exhibition is open to the public until January 17. The Gallery is open to the public from Monday to Friday from 10am to 5pm and on Saturday from 2pm to 6pm.
