Shadows Move Among Them II May 8, 2011

Stanley Greaves is a painter and writer who was born in a "tenement yard" on Carmichael Street, Georgetown, Guyana. He is one of the Caribbean's most distinguished artists with major exhibitions in the UK and Europe as well as throughout the Caribbean. He works mainly in painting, but has also produced sculpture, drawings, prints and pottery. His themes include family, daily life, metaphysical speculation, the hard years of social collapse and political repression in Guyana, the strange visitations of inner imaginative life, and an exploration of shadows. He left Guyana in 1987 and moved to Barbados where he spent over 20 years; he now resides in Fayetteville, NC.