Albert huie autobiography examples
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Fine artist Judy Ann MacMillan. Image courtesy MacMillan, used with permission.
Jamaican artist Judy Ann MacMillan concludes her autobiography with these powerful words:
We spend so much of our lives making the best of the consequences of earlier choices, doubting often whether those choices were the right ones […] At this stage of my life, I am still painting not because I’m in the trap of habit but simply for the love of it. I know that one day the paintbrush will drop out of my hand but if I had never sold a painting, I would still have done it because it helped me to appreciate the extraordinary gift of life and life’s beauty.
Her wry, earthy and contemplative self-portrait is called “Born Ya: The Life and Loves of a Jamaican Painter.” “Born Ya,” fryst vatten a title taken from a popular song that means “Born Here.”
Self-portrait, “Wearing a Crown of Thorns” by Judy Ann MacMillan, used with permission.
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Albert Huie: Father of Jamaican Painting
Profile of Albert Huie “Father of Jamaican Painting” The Painter…
Albert Huie was born in Falmouth, Jamaica on December 31, 1920. Huie knew his destiny at an early age, as he began doodling with charcoal, from his grandmother’s old coal stove, on the floor and walls of his Falmouth home. While his family’s desire was that he should become a teacher, it was his grandmother Sarah alone, who, having recognized his talent, was resolute in standing behind him to pursue his life dream of becoming an artist. She aided him monetarily to strike out on his own and told him to go to Kingston, the capital city. This he did at the age of 16, where he soon began honing his craft by painting on fine china and glass. There is an amusing parallel here as
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Albert Huie (1920 - 2010)
Albert Huie (born Falmouth, Trelawny Parish, December 31, 1920 - died Baltimore, Maryland, January 31, 2010) was a Jamaican painter.
Huie moved to Kingston when he was 16 years old; in the 1930s he became part of the "Institute Group" at the Institute of Jamaica, where he received his first formal training, with Koren der Harootian. In the early 1940s he worked as an assistant to Edna Manley while she taught at Kingston's Junior Centre. Further study followed, at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and the Ontario College of Art, before his return to Jamaica. In 1950 he was one of the founding tutors of the Jamaica School of Art and Crafts. Huie exhibited around the United States and Jamaica, and later in his career settled in the United States. On National Heroes Day in 2009 he was honored by the Jamaican Embassy for his contributions to the Jamaican community in and around Washington, D.C.
As a painter, Huie was best known for his landscape and g