Dionne Barrett

My art career began at the age of three, when I would look at people and animals and try to draw them. At age eight, I was already drawing portrait images of persons, and by about eleven, I began incorporating complex landscapes in my drawings.

Unfortunately, I did not study art until 2007, at the encouragement of one of my sisters - albeit for just three months. Of course my greatest strength was depicting objects but putting colours together was a challenge.

A year after I had done that three month course, I just woke up with the thought that I could do it. Because, my teacher who taught me painting was a landscape artist, I naturally followed a similar path for three years. Late last year, I decided to vary my art, because I needed to challenge myself. And I am happy that I did.

After completing my authorship in two books (math and fiction) I am now focusing on my core passion -art. My focus is on telling stories, using varied objects to do so.

My strength in art includes portraits, and the elements of wood, rocks, water and trees in landscape. Abstract drawing is my lesser favourite and worst, the other diversity of paintings (impressionism, fauvism - etc.)

University of the West Indies (B.A.)