What have I been up to? 2011 has been a banner year. When it started I was working in retail in the Ottawa Rideau Centre and now I’m back home in the Bahamas producing a play that I spent the last four (or was it five) years writing. Living the dream? For damn sure ma [...]

Imagine a day with no artists. On February 11, 2009, the first Day of Absence was observed in the Bahamas with the above tag-line. This event was the brain child of Nicolette Bethel, prominent Bahamian anthropologist, scholar and playwright. With a demonstration at the College of the Bahamas and numerous blog posts, interviews and radio [...]

Part 4: Laughter is the best medicine… If you want to be a professional creative writer in the Bahamas you are going to have to be some kind of playwright. It really is that simple. Poetry is currently back in fashion, but in its raw form, on the page, or performed at small events, open-mike [...]

And now for a long overdue introduction… Well Muddo! The audience has come, and they have voiced their opinion on Part 2 of this series, and after some initial ruckus, it seems that things are settling down to some sort of consensus: Film has potential, but beware of the risk. Thanks to all of those [...]

Part 2: So, you want to be in the movies… What are we to make of the current passion for movie-making in the Bahamas? Is it possible to apply the logic of Hollywood to our local situation and create an honest-to-God indigenous film industry here? Films made by Bahamians for Bahamians? This is an enormously [...]

When I walked out of Transformers 2 the other day, I had an epiphany. Or more precisely, I had an extension to another epiphany that I had had a few days before. My revelation was about art, how to be an artist in the Bahamas and most importantly, how to make a living while doing [...]

Well not me per se. I’m not Oprah! It’s one of my paintings that is gracing the present issue of Tongues of the Ocean. Why not take a look and read some of the wonderful poetry while you are there. The piece which is entitled “Before Someone Sees” was painted as a part of my [...]

Here’s another little video that I’ve been meaning to put up for years. In this one, appropriately titled “TIEF,” I star as the hapless (and fat!) security guard who tries to catch the tief (thief for the non-initiated) running around the art gallery. It was was filmed at the NAGB back in December of 2004, [...]

You can buy one of my original paintings on ebay. It’s there now on an auction just waiting for you to bid on it. Come on, you know you want it. UPDATE: The piece is still available until June 16th. The above links have been corrected.

Well, I finally did some of the things with this site that I said I was going to do. It now is not on those terribly unreliable servers at Mesopia / Netbunch. Thanks for the down-time and the memories guys. Now all of the sites that I want to keep are on Dreamhost. Yes, the [...]