From February 22 to March 24, 2024 Dennis de Caires’s collection of recently completed paintings showed at the Barbados Museum & Historical Society in the exhibition titled “Wuh Part You Is?” Characteristic of De Caires’s oeuvre, the paintings which are vibrantly polychromatic evidence a love of and a preoccupation with colour. These are not the paintings of a London-trained artist whose sense of colour is harnessed, restrained, and tamed by the perennial grey of those skies. Nor are they the paintings of a re-transplanted Londoner trying to break from those restraints. No! These are the paintings of an artist who revels in the exuberant colour of gardens in a London springtime; colour under tropical equatorial light; and the energetic, rhythmic and psychic possibilities of colour.