An Artful Education

Bermuda College lecturer Edwin ME Smith was growing increasingly concerned.

Fewer and fewer residents seemed able to identify Bermuda’s artists and their work. Whenever he asked the question — of friends, of his students — he got a handful of names in reply: Sharon Wilson, Desmond Fountain and Graham Foster.

He decided to do something about it.

His book, Imagemaking and the Bermudian Artist,features 21 compositions in charcoal and black and white acrylic. Each image was created combining the work of several artists. Pieces by Charles Lloyd Tucker, Ami Zanders and Manuel Palacio mix in Teacups and Tea Cozies; Hereward Watlington, Antoine Hunt and Frank Chiappa in Guardians. Roughly 60 sources were drawn on to complete the work, which is now on display in the Edinburgh Gallery at Bermuda Society of Arts.

He got his bachelor’s degree in secondary education from West Indies College, now called Northern Caribbean University. He then earned a master’s degree in teaching from Andrews University in Michigan and a masters in fine art from Savannah College of Art and Design in 1991.

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