I recognized that rock!

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Bart -my real name-

Senior Insider

• Mar 4, 2021

• #1

I was in an art gallery in Naples, FL yesterday (down here helping out my mother, NOT on vacation!! ;-) and I saw a familiar looking rock and I asked the artist if that was from an actual place or if it was his own creation. He said it's from St. Barthelemy. And I said Saline Beach. And he said Ile Coco.

Anyhow, he's a native of St. Martin and has a gallery down there too. His name is Sir Roland Richardson.

https://www.rolandrichardson.com/

 

amyb

Senior Insider

• Mar 4, 2021

• #2

Oh my goodness. A legend in Caribbean art circles. Well done, Bart

 

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Bart -my real name-

Senior Insider

• Mar 4, 2021

• #3

Wow! Thanks Amy! I was unaware and unfamiliar with Sir Richard until yesterday.

 

KevinS

Senior Insider

• Mar 4, 2021

• #4

Oh ya, Sir Richard is well known, but mostly so on St Martin/Sint Maarten.

 

elgreaux

Senior Insider

• Mar 5, 2021

• #5

He is, as Kevin says, a well-known artist, and has done many many paintings of the flamboyants trees in full bloom...

 

stbartshopper

Senior Insider

• Mar 6, 2021

• #6

It just shows you have a ‘good eye’ Bart. Good catch!

 

sxmbeachlover

SBH Insider

• Mar 7, 2021

• #7

Wow! Love his still life! Beautiful! We'll have to stop by his gallery in Marigot on our trip to SBH in April!!!

 

amyb

Senior Insider

• Mar 7, 2021

• #8

And a huge beauty used to hang in the Juianna Airport arrival hall. A flamboyant in bloom..magnificent.