£520
Clare WHITE (1903-1997) Family and Friends gathering, Barbados Watercolour, signed, 36.5 x 49cm. St Ives artist Clare White visited her sister who worked in Barbados as a governess several times in the 1960s and, captivated by the island's landscape and its people, she painted some of her most celebrated works here. Barbados played an important part in her development as an artist, as her watercolour palette noticeably lifted following her visits, as the natural brightness of the Caribbean seemed to remove any remaining inhibitions she may have had in her joyous use of colour. This painting portrays a group of friends chatting in the dappled shade of palm trees on the beach, with the sugar refinery, which no doubt brought many of them to the island for work, on the horizon.
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