In their continuing series, Artists Stanley Greaves AA and Akima McPherson examine Cyril Kanhai’s Green Land of Guyana. This oil painting, which was completed in 1967, will be available for viewing from March 7 – 12 at the National Gallery of Art, Castellani House. This is their 12th conversation.
Akima McPherson: Green Land of Guyana by Cyril Kanhai is a work I have always enjoyed viewing. Its title is so wonderfully ambitious, as though Kanhai wished to encapsulate all the beauty and the majesty of the Guyana landscape in his image. For me, he is successful. Guyana—as he images it—is a lush, tamed and untamed land, filled with mystery and sensuality and rawness. It is a land of contrasting juxtapositions, and a land that