Art Exhibits at Baha Mar Resort

Once described by a Harvard critic as “an unsophisticated artist producing sophisticated art,” Cox is known for large format paintings, found object assemblages, collage and non-traditional printmaking. His work often references distant places and ideas, but is executed with familiar and ordinary materials.

Born in Nassau in 1973, Cox attended Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, where he received a BFA in Illustration (’95) and an MAT in Art Education (’96). Afterwards, he went on to teach in the Art Department at the College of the Bahamas for six years followed by four years working in Education at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas.

Currently serving as Baha Mar’s Director of Art, Cox has exhibited and participated in exchanges in France, Italy, Germany, Hong Kong, the United States and the Caribbean.

John Paul Saddleton’s (b.1968, Bahamas) paintings are a study of light. Working en plein-air, or directly from the landscape, his process is exceptional in that he uses photographic aides sparingly, resulting in dazzling depictions of Bahamian landscape and seascape, often in their most vivid light.

Saddleton received a Bachelor’s of Commerce from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada and continued on to Central Saint Martin’s in London, England, where he studied watercolor layering, glass manipulation and advanced color theory.   

The artist frequently works to commission; you can see his paintings in many offices, hotels and private collections.  His murals can also be found at the Lyndin Pindling International Airport, the Cancer Research Centre and Ardastara Gardens and Zoo.

John Paul Saddleton’s (b.1968, Bahamas) paintings are a study of light. Working en plein-air, or directly from the landscape, his process is exceptional in that he uses photographic aides sparingly, resulting in dazzling depictions of Bahamian landscape and seascape, often in their most vivid light.

Saddleton received a Bachelor’s of Commerce from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada and continued on to Central Saint Martin’s in London, England, where he studied watercolor layering, glass manipulation and advanced color theory.   

The artist frequently works to commission; you can see his paintings in many offices, hotels and private collections.  His murals can also be found at the Lyndin Pindling International Airport, the Cancer Research Centre and Ardastara Gardens and Zoo.

John Paul Saddleton’s (b.1968, Bahamas) paintings are a study of light. Working en plein-air, or directly from the landscape, his process is exceptional in that he uses photographic aides sparingly, resulting in dazzling depictions of Bahamian landscape and seascape, often in their most vivid light.

Saddleton received a Bachelor’s of Commerce from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada and continued on to Central Saint Martin’s in London, England, where he studied watercolor layering, glass manipulation and advanced color theory.   

The artist frequently works to commission; you can see his paintings in many offices, hotels and private collections.  His murals can also be found at the Lyndin Pindling International Airport, the Cancer Research Centre and Ardastara Gardens and Zoo.

“Collecting is part of the making,” states sculptor Kendra Frorup about her artwork. Frorup was born and brought up in Nassau, Bahamas and uses her memories of this time in her art. After a childhood in the Bahamas, she welcomed the opportunity to study in the United States and began to create representational images that showed a commonality with her culture.

To this day, Jonathan’s desire to recreate the Bahamas on canvas remains, and he has learned that it takes many years to perfect.  Today his paintings realistically capture the majesty and character of Bahamian life and scenery.  Using acrylic paint as his medium, he explores a wide array of subjects, such as historic Bahamian homes and landmarks, colourful native plants, and of course the luminous waters of the Bahamas.

John Paul Saddleton’s (b.1968, Bahamas) paintings are a study of light. Working en plein-air, or directly from the landscape, his process is exceptional in that he uses photographic aides sparingly, resulting in dazzling depictions of Bahamian landscape and seascape, often in their most vivid light.

Saddleton received a Bachelor’s of Commerce from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada and continued on to Central Saint Martin’s in London, England, where he studied watercolor layering, glass manipulation and advanced color theory.   

The artist frequently works to commission; you can see his paintings in many offices, hotels and private collections.  His murals can also be found at the Lyndin Pindling International Airport, the Cancer Research Centre and Ardastara Gardens and Zoo.

Delton Barrett grew up in The Bahamas as a child completing his last year in school from C.R. Walker Senior High in 2008 where he found his interest in art. After leaving school he began spending his time painting sceneries from old magazines of The Bahamas.
Barrett’s ultimate goal is to reflect himself within the landscape that surrounds him; to mirror his masculinity within the foliage that he blends his body into. He asserts his oneness with the roots of trees that stretch far underground. His intentional placement within the untouched landscape communicates a need to be seen deeply, intrinsically apart of the land in a way that brings to the forefront the question of his own freedom – his body, like the land once colonized, now a prop for rebellion against the colonial gaze.

“Collecting is part of the making,” states sculptor Kendra Frorup about her artwork. Frorup was born and brought up in Nassau, Bahamas and uses her memories of this time in her art. After a childhood in the Bahamas, she welcomed the opportunity to study in the United States and began to create representational images that showed a commonality with her culture.

ANTONIUS ROBERTS, OBE (b.1958 Nassau, The Bahamas) has one daughter Ayla Antonia Roberts and is married to Dr Annette Warren-Roberts. Roberts graduated in 1981 from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a BFA in Painting.  As the former coordinator of FINCO Summer Art Workshops and as a teacher and lecturer at Government High School and The College of The Bahamas (now University of The Bahamas), Roberts has mentored a generation of young Bahamian artists.  He conceived of and coordinated the first Junior Junkanoo competition and parade in 1983, celebrating ten years of Bahamian Independence. He served as the Curator of The Central Bank of The Bahamas’ Art Gallery until 2017, and was the architect and coordinator of their annual Competitions and Exhibitions until 2006; and played a supportive role in the restoration of the former Villa Doyle and its conversion to the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.  Additionally Roberts founded The Bahamian Art Gallery in 1991 which was responsible for the reintroduction of master artists Kendal Hanna and Jo Monks – USA Boy. That same year he curated the largest exhibition of Amos Ferguson’s work at The Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Gallery and encouraged The Right Honorable Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling to approve the purchase of twenty five (25) paintings from that exhibition. These paintings formed the beginning of the National Art Collection of The Bahamas. In recognition of his contribution to national development in the arts, Roberts was a recipient of a Commonwealth of The Bahamas Silver Jubilee Award and of the E. Clement Bethel Award from The College of The Bahamas, as well as the Ministry of Tourism’s Cacique Award for the Arts in 2000.  As an artist Roberts has participated in exhibitions around the world and has mounted many within The Bahamas.  In 2005 Roberts spent one month in Pietrasanta, Italy working in marble and granite as part of the International Professional Artist Symposium and Exchange. In 2006 he was invited to exhibit in Changchun, China and his 12’ bronze sculpture is permanently installed there.  As a sculptor Roberts is best known for the first Sacred Space project at the historic Clifton Heritage site. This work was expanded by the installation at the Blake Road Welcome Centre.  Another group of Sacred Women travelled to Wiesbaden, Germany for the Funky Nassau Exhibition and then were exhibited at The Nassau Art Gallery of The Bahamas, with a similar installation now forming part of The Grand Bahama Heritage Foundation. On November 3, 2017, The Cove at Atlantis, Paradise Island debuted a permanent art installation “Sacred Space” on the tip of The Cove’s peninsula. This sculpture series, represents seven dancing women who each depict the intention of triumph, hope, determination and a vision to help conserve Bahamian Heritage. As an open space designer, in 2009 Roberts designed and directed the creation of the seven acre park at Centreville House, an integral part of the revitalization programme in downtown Nassau. In 2011 he participated in the Master Artists of The Bahamas Exhibition at the Waterloo Centre for the Arts in Iowa. His artwork Bubbles was installed as part of the expansion of the Lynden Pindling International Airport’s final phase in 2013. Roberts was the Artist in Residence at Schooner Bay, Abaco, for several years, and in 2017 established a relationship with the Island School in Eleuthera. In 2012, he opened an art gallery and studio on Cumberland Street in a centuries’ old historic building known as Hillside House, which has become an active centre for the creative community. His ethos connecting man’s spiritual and emotional nature and nature itself, and his desire to record and honour Bahamian heritage, is inherent in all of his paintings and sculptures.
A member of The Charitable Arts Foundation for over twenty years, Roberts along with other council members, continue to raise significant funding for the creative community in The Bahamas. These funds are available on an annual bases for art education, grants for short and full length films, art projects, music projects, play writers, poets, musicians and support of national art institutions.

“There is no progress in constantly repeating what has been done.” This theme resonates sharply through the art and life of Bahamian-born Visual Artist- Mr. Allan Pachino Wallace. It’s therefore not surprising that he finds himself as one of the most unique contributors to Bahamian art. At thirty-seven years old, Allan exudes a sense of comfort in the practice of his artistic gift, consistently challenging himself to achieve more. Allan was born March 11, 1979. Just about two years later, inspired by his uncle O’Brian Wallace, Allan picked up an art pencil for the first time, and the two became inseparable.

ANTONIUS ROBERTS, OBE (b.1958 Nassau, The Bahamas) has one daughter Ayla Antonia Roberts and is married to Dr Annette Warren-Roberts. Roberts graduated in 1981 from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a BFA in Painting.  As the former coordinator of FINCO Summer Art Workshops and as a teacher and lecturer at Government High School and The College of The Bahamas (now University of The Bahamas), Roberts has mentored a generation of young Bahamian artists.  He conceived of and coordinated the first Junior Junkanoo competition and parade in 1983, celebrating ten years of Bahamian Independence. He served as the Curator of The Central Bank of The Bahamas’ Art Gallery until 2017, and was the architect and coordinator of their annual Competitions and Exhibitions until 2006; and played a supportive role in the restoration of the former Villa Doyle and its conversion to the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.  Additionally Roberts founded The Bahamian Art Gallery in 1991 which was responsible for the reintroduction of master artists Kendal Hanna and Jo Monks – USA Boy. That same year he curated the largest exhibition of Amos Ferguson’s work at The Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Gallery and encouraged The Right Honorable Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling to approve the purchase of twenty five (25) paintings from that exhibition. These paintings formed the beginning of the National Art Collection of The Bahamas. In recognition of his contribution to national development in the arts, Roberts was a recipient of a Commonwealth of The Bahamas Silver Jubilee Award and of the E. Clement Bethel Award from The College of The Bahamas, as well as the Ministry of Tourism’s Cacique Award for the Arts in 2000.  As an artist Roberts has participated in exhibitions around the world and has mounted many within The Bahamas.  In 2005 Roberts spent one month in Pietrasanta, Italy working in marble and granite as part of the International Professional Artist Symposium and Exchange. In 2006 he was invited to exhibit in Changchun, China and his 12’ bronze sculpture is permanently installed there.  As a sculptor Roberts is best known for the first Sacred Space project at the historic Clifton Heritage site. This work was expanded by the installation at the Blake Road Welcome Centre.  Another group of Sacred Women travelled to Wiesbaden, Germany for the Funky Nassau Exhibition and then were exhibited at The Nassau Art Gallery of The Bahamas, with a similar installation now forming part of The Grand Bahama Heritage Foundation. On November 3, 2017, The Cove at Atlantis, Paradise Island debuted a permanent art installation “Sacred Space” on the tip of The Cove’s peninsula. This sculpture series, represents seven dancing women who each depict the intention of triumph, hope, determination and a vision to help conserve Bahamian Heritage. As an open space designer, in 2009 Roberts designed and directed the creation of the seven acre park at Centreville House, an integral part of the revitalization programme in downtown Nassau. In 2011 he participated in the Master Artists of The Bahamas Exhibition at the Waterloo Centre for the Arts in Iowa. His artwork Bubbles was installed as part of the expansion of the Lynden Pindling International Airport’s final phase in 2013. Roberts was the Artist in Residence at Schooner Bay, Abaco, for several years, and in 2017 established a relationship with the Island School in Eleuthera. In 2012, he opened an art gallery and studio on Cumberland Street in a centuries’ old historic building known as Hillside House, which has become an active centre for the creative community. His ethos connecting man’s spiritual and emotional nature and nature itself, and his desire to record and honour Bahamian heritage, is inherent in all of his paintings and sculptures.
A member of The Charitable Arts Foundation for over twenty years, Roberts along with other council members, continue to raise significant funding for the creative community in The Bahamas. These funds are available on an annual bases for art education, grants for short and full length films, art projects, music projects, play writers, poets, musicians and support of national art institutions.

“Collecting is part of the making,” states sculptor Kendra Frorup about her artwork. Frorup was born and brought up in Nassau, Bahamas and uses her memories of this time in her art. After a childhood in the Bahamas, she welcomed the opportunity to study in the United States and began to create representational images that showed a commonality with her culture.

Guilden M. Gilbert, Jr. was born and raised in Bermuda in 1966.

His mother says he always showed a fascination for cameras. He did not take photography seriously until at the age of 14, while participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme he needed to chose a hobby, photography was a natural fit. This is where he began to not only shoot but also learned how to develop film and print images in the darkroom. It was at this point where photography became a very large part of his life. Unfortunately, professional photographers were unwilling to teach photography as many feared the student would become a competitor. Guilden learn photography on his own, one image on one roll of film at time, he took notes of each shot he captured and when receiving the film back from the lab he would analyze what he did right and what he did wrong and began to understand why things worked and why they did not, this allowed him to learned the craft of photography. His parents were very supportive, in 1981 they bought him his first 35mm SLR camera, a Canon AE-1 and on this he would shoot between 8 and 10 rolls of film a week. He had this camera and continued to produce images with until it was stolen in 1999.

Guilden relocated to Nassau, the Bahamas in 1997 with his wife of 6 years, they recently celebrated 27 years of marriage and have two children, both born in the Bahamas.

Although much of his work is landscape/seascape, he has become known as a Sports Photographer having been contracted to shoot the IAAF World Relays, CARIFTA Games, FIFA World Cup Qualifier between Bermuda and the Bahamas, FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, he also shoots swim events and went home to Bermuda specifically to capture some of the America’s Cup races. He was also recently featured in N Photo Magazine, a Nikon-centric globally distributed magazine for his Sports Photography work. Guilden has also had numerous images selected by Blank Wall, an Athens, Greece art gallery for exhibit. He recently received Honourable Mention in two large global photography contests, the International Photographers Award and the Tokyo International Foto Awards. His work has been purchased and hangs on walls globally.

Guilden is also an executive and photographer with the Bahamian Project, a project designed to capture portraits of average Bahamians with the view to establishing a National Portrait Archive.

Today Guilden has come full circle and is once again shooting and developing film, specifically Medium Format film. He says, “There is just something organic about shooting film and there is nothing quite like the feeling of pulling a developed roll of film out of the developing cannister to see the images created. Shooting film will certainly test your knowledge of proper exposure and composition because the negative does not lie about what you have produced.”

Guilden, along with another local photographer made a decision, two years ago, that they will teach photography because to have gained so much knowledge over nearly 40 years of photograph and not share that knowledge does a dis-service to the art form. The class range from Beginner’s Photography to Advanced Studio and Outdoor Lighting and are held in partnership with Queen’s College Centre for Further Education.

ANTONIUS ROBERTS, OBE (b.1958 Nassau, The Bahamas) has one daughter Ayla Antonia Roberts and is married to Dr Annette Warren-Roberts. Roberts graduated in 1981 from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a BFA in Painting.  As the former coordinator of FINCO Summer Art Workshops and as a teacher and lecturer at Government High School and The College of The Bahamas (now University of The Bahamas), Roberts has mentored a generation of young Bahamian artists.  He conceived of and coordinated the first Junior Junkanoo competition and parade in 1983, celebrating ten years of Bahamian Independence. He served as the Curator of The Central Bank of The Bahamas’ Art Gallery until 2017, and was the architect and coordinator of their annual Competitions and Exhibitions until 2006; and played a supportive role in the restoration of the former Villa Doyle and its conversion to the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.  Additionally Roberts founded The Bahamian Art Gallery in 1991 which was responsible for the reintroduction of master artists Kendal Hanna and Jo Monks – USA Boy. That same year he curated the largest exhibition of Amos Ferguson’s work at The Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Gallery and encouraged The Right Honorable Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling to approve the purchase of twenty five (25) paintings from that exhibition. These paintings formed the beginning of the National Art Collection of The Bahamas. In recognition of his contribution to national development in the arts, Roberts was a recipient of a Commonwealth of The Bahamas Silver Jubilee Award and of the E. Clement Bethel Award from The College of The Bahamas, as well as the Ministry of Tourism’s Cacique Award for the Arts in 2000.  As an artist Roberts has participated in exhibitions around the world and has mounted many within The Bahamas.  In 2005 Roberts spent one month in Pietrasanta, Italy working in marble and granite as part of the International Professional Artist Symposium and Exchange. In 2006 he was invited to exhibit in Changchun, China and his 12’ bronze sculpture is permanently installed there.  As a sculptor Roberts is best known for the first Sacred Space project at the historic Clifton Heritage site. This work was expanded by the installation at the Blake Road Welcome Centre.  Another group of Sacred Women travelled to Wiesbaden, Germany for the Funky Nassau Exhibition and then were exhibited at The Nassau Art Gallery of The Bahamas, with a similar installation now forming part of The Grand Bahama Heritage Foundation. On November 3, 2017, The Cove at Atlantis, Paradise Island debuted a permanent art installation “Sacred Space” on the tip of The Cove’s peninsula. This sculpture series, represents seven dancing women who each depict the intention of triumph, hope, determination and a vision to help conserve Bahamian Heritage. As an open space designer, in 2009 Roberts designed and directed the creation of the seven acre park at Centreville House, an integral part of the revitalization programme in downtown Nassau. In 2011 he participated in the Master Artists of The Bahamas Exhibition at the Waterloo Centre for the Arts in Iowa. His artwork Bubbles was installed as part of the expansion of the Lynden Pindling International Airport’s final phase in 2013. Roberts was the Artist in Residence at Schooner Bay, Abaco, for several years, and in 2017 established a relationship with the Island School in Eleuthera. In 2012, he opened an art gallery and studio on Cumberland Street in a centuries’ old historic building known as Hillside House, which has become an active centre for the creative community. His ethos connecting man’s spiritual and emotional nature and nature itself, and his desire to record and honour Bahamian heritage, is inherent in all of his paintings and sculptures.
A member of The Charitable Arts Foundation for over twenty years, Roberts along with other council members, continue to raise significant funding for the creative community in The Bahamas. These funds are available on an annual bases for art education, grants for short and full length films, art projects, music projects, play writers, poets, musicians and support of national art institutions.

Guilden M. Gilbert, Jr. was born and raised in Bermuda in 1966.

His mother says he always showed a fascination for cameras. He did not take photography seriously until at the age of 14, while participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme he needed to chose a hobby, photography was a natural fit. This is where he began to not only shoot but also learned how to develop film and print images in the darkroom. It was at this point where photography became a very large part of his life. Unfortunately, professional photographers were unwilling to teach photography as many feared the student would become a competitor. Guilden learn photography on his own, one image on one roll of film at time, he took notes of each shot he captured and when receiving the film back from the lab he would analyze what he did right and what he did wrong and began to understand why things worked and why they did not, this allowed him to learned the craft of photography. His parents were very supportive, in 1981 they bought him his first 35mm SLR camera, a Canon AE-1 and on this he would shoot between 8 and 10 rolls of film a week. He had this camera and continued to produce images with until it was stolen in 1999.

Guilden relocated to Nassau, the Bahamas in 1997 with his wife of 6 years, they recently celebrated 27 years of marriage and have two children, both born in the Bahamas.

Although much of his work is landscape/seascape, he has become known as a Sports Photographer having been contracted to shoot the IAAF World Relays, CARIFTA Games, FIFA World Cup Qualifier between Bermuda and the Bahamas, FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, he also shoots swim events and went home to Bermuda specifically to capture some of the America’s Cup races. He was also recently featured in N Photo Magazine, a Nikon-centric globally distributed magazine for his Sports Photography work. Guilden has also had numerous images selected by Blank Wall, an Athens, Greece art gallery for exhibit. He recently received Honourable Mention in two large global photography contests, the International Photographers Award and the Tokyo International Foto Awards. His work has been purchased and hangs on walls globally.

Guilden is also an executive and photographer with the Bahamian Project, a project designed to capture portraits of average Bahamians with the view to establishing a National Portrait Archive.

Today Guilden has come full circle and is once again shooting and developing film, specifically Medium Format film. He says, “There is just something organic about shooting film and there is nothing quite like the feeling of pulling a developed roll of film out of the developing cannister to see the images created. Shooting film will certainly test your knowledge of proper exposure and composition because the negative does not lie about what you have produced.”

Guilden, along with another local photographer made a decision, two years ago, that they will teach photography because to have gained so much knowledge over nearly 40 years of photograph and not share that knowledge does a dis-service to the art form. The class range from Beginner’s Photography to Advanced Studio and Outdoor Lighting and are held in partnership with Queen’s College Centre for Further Education.

Guilden M. Gilbert, Jr. was born and raised in Bermuda in 1966.

His mother says he always showed a fascination for cameras. He did not take photography seriously until at the age of 14, while participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme he needed to chose a hobby, photography was a natural fit. This is where he began to not only shoot but also learned how to develop film and print images in the darkroom. It was at this point where photography became a very large part of his life. Unfortunately, professional photographers were unwilling to teach photography as many feared the student would become a competitor. Guilden learn photography on his own, one image on one roll of film at time, he took notes of each shot he captured and when receiving the film back from the lab he would analyze what he did right and what he did wrong and began to understand why things worked and why they did not, this allowed him to learned the craft of photography. His parents were very supportive, in 1981 they bought him his first 35mm SLR camera, a Canon AE-1 and on this he would shoot between 8 and 10 rolls of film a week. He had this camera and continued to produce images with until it was stolen in 1999.

Guilden relocated to Nassau, the Bahamas in 1997 with his wife of 6 years, they recently celebrated 27 years of marriage and have two children, both born in the Bahamas.

Although much of his work is landscape/seascape, he has become known as a Sports Photographer having been contracted to shoot the IAAF World Relays, CARIFTA Games, FIFA World Cup Qualifier between Bermuda and the Bahamas, FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, he also shoots swim events and went home to Bermuda specifically to capture some of the America’s Cup races. He was also recently featured in N Photo Magazine, a Nikon-centric globally distributed magazine for his Sports Photography work. Guilden has also had numerous images selected by Blank Wall, an Athens, Greece art gallery for exhibit. He recently received Honourable Mention in two large global photography contests, the International Photographers Award and the Tokyo International Foto Awards. His work has been purchased and hangs on walls globally.

Guilden is also an executive and photographer with the Bahamian Project, a project designed to capture portraits of average Bahamians with the view to establishing a National Portrait Archive.

Today Guilden has come full circle and is once again shooting and developing film, specifically Medium Format film. He says, “There is just something organic about shooting film and there is nothing quite like the feeling of pulling a developed roll of film out of the developing cannister to see the images created. Shooting film will certainly test your knowledge of proper exposure and composition because the negative does not lie about what you have produced.”

Guilden, along with another local photographer made a decision, two years ago, that they will teach photography because to have gained so much knowledge over nearly 40 years of photograph and not share that knowledge does a dis-service to the art form. The class range from Beginner’s Photography to Advanced Studio and Outdoor Lighting and are held in partnership with Queen’s College Centre for Further Education.

To this day, Jonathan’s desire to recreate the Bahamas on canvas remains, and he has learned that it takes many years to perfect.  Today his paintings realistically capture the majesty and character of Bahamian life and scenery.  Using acrylic paint as his medium, he explores a wide array of subjects, such as historic Bahamian homes and landmarks, colourful native plants, and of course the luminous waters of the Bahamas.

To this day, Jonathan’s desire to recreate the Bahamas on canvas remains, and he has learned that it takes many years to perfect.  Today his paintings realistically capture the majesty and character of Bahamian life and scenery.  Using acrylic paint as his medium, he explores a wide array of subjects, such as historic Bahamian homes and landmarks, colourful native plants, and of course the luminous waters of the Bahamas.

“There is no progress in constantly repeating what has been done.” This theme resonates sharply through the art and life of Bahamian-born Visual Artist- Mr. Allan Pachino Wallace. It’s therefore not surprising that he finds himself as one of the most unique contributors to Bahamian art. At thirty-seven years old, Allan exudes a sense of comfort in the practice of his artistic gift, consistently challenging himself to achieve more. Allan was born March 11, 1979. Just about two years later, inspired by his uncle O’Brian Wallace, Allan picked up an art pencil for the first time, and the two became inseparable.

ANTONIUS ROBERTS, OBE (b.1958 Nassau, The Bahamas) has one daughter Ayla Antonia Roberts and is married to Dr Annette Warren-Roberts. Roberts graduated in 1981 from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a BFA in Painting.  As the former coordinator of FINCO Summer Art Workshops and as a teacher and lecturer at Government High School and The College of The Bahamas (now University of The Bahamas), Roberts has mentored a generation of young Bahamian artists.  He conceived of and coordinated the first Junior Junkanoo competition and parade in 1983, celebrating ten years of Bahamian Independence. He served as the Curator of The Central Bank of The Bahamas’ Art Gallery until 2017, and was the architect and coordinator of their annual Competitions and Exhibitions until 2006; and played a supportive role in the restoration of the former Villa Doyle and its conversion to the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.  Additionally Roberts founded The Bahamian Art Gallery in 1991 which was responsible for the reintroduction of master artists Kendal Hanna and Jo Monks – USA Boy. That same year he curated the largest exhibition of Amos Ferguson’s work at The Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Gallery and encouraged The Right Honorable Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling to approve the purchase of twenty five (25) paintings from that exhibition. These paintings formed the beginning of the National Art Collection of The Bahamas. In recognition of his contribution to national development in the arts, Roberts was a recipient of a Commonwealth of The Bahamas Silver Jubilee Award and of the E. Clement Bethel Award from The College of The Bahamas, as well as the Ministry of Tourism’s Cacique Award for the Arts in 2000.  As an artist Roberts has participated in exhibitions around the world and has mounted many within The Bahamas.  In 2005 Roberts spent one month in Pietrasanta, Italy working in marble and granite as part of the International Professional Artist Symposium and Exchange. In 2006 he was invited to exhibit in Changchun, China and his 12’ bronze sculpture is permanently installed there.  As a sculptor Roberts is best known for the first Sacred Space project at the historic Clifton Heritage site. This work was expanded by the installation at the Blake Road Welcome Centre.  Another group of Sacred Women travelled to Wiesbaden, Germany for the Funky Nassau Exhibition and then were exhibited at The Nassau Art Gallery of The Bahamas, with a similar installation now forming part of The Grand Bahama Heritage Foundation. On November 3, 2017, The Cove at Atlantis, Paradise Island debuted a permanent art installation “Sacred Space” on the tip of The Cove’s peninsula. This sculpture series, represents seven dancing women who each depict the intention of triumph, hope, determination and a vision to help conserve Bahamian Heritage. As an open space designer, in 2009 Roberts designed and directed the creation of the seven acre park at Centreville House, an integral part of the revitalization programme in downtown Nassau. In 2011 he participated in the Master Artists of The Bahamas Exhibition at the Waterloo Centre for the Arts in Iowa. His artwork Bubbles was installed as part of the expansion of the Lynden Pindling International Airport’s final phase in 2013. Roberts was the Artist in Residence at Schooner Bay, Abaco, for several years, and in 2017 established a relationship with the Island School in Eleuthera. In 2012, he opened an art gallery and studio on Cumberland Street in a centuries’ old historic building known as Hillside House, which has become an active centre for the creative community. His ethos connecting man’s spiritual and emotional nature and nature itself, and his desire to record and honour Bahamian heritage, is inherent in all of his paintings and sculptures.
A member of The Charitable Arts Foundation for over twenty years, Roberts along with other council members, continue to raise significant funding for the creative community in The Bahamas. These funds are available on an annual bases for art education, grants for short and full length films, art projects, music projects, play writers, poets, musicians and support of national art institutions.

Guilden M. Gilbert, Jr. was born and raised in Bermuda in 1966.

His mother says he always showed a fascination for cameras. He did not take photography seriously until at the age of 14, while participating in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme he needed to chose a hobby, photography was a natural fit. This is where he began to not only shoot but also learned how to develop film and print images in the darkroom. It was at this point where photography became a very large part of his life. Unfortunately, professional photographers were unwilling to teach photography as many feared the student would become a competitor. Guilden learn photography on his own, one image on one roll of film at time, he took notes of each shot he captured and when receiving the film back from the lab he would analyze what he did right and what he did wrong and began to understand why things worked and why they did not, this allowed him to learned the craft of photography. His parents were very supportive, in 1981 they bought him his first 35mm SLR camera, a Canon AE-1 and on this he would shoot between 8 and 10 rolls of film a week. He had this camera and continued to produce images with until it was stolen in 1999.

Guilden relocated to Nassau, the Bahamas in 1997 with his wife of 6 years, they recently celebrated 27 years of marriage and have two children, both born in the Bahamas.

Although much of his work is landscape/seascape, he has become known as a Sports Photographer having been contracted to shoot the IAAF World Relays, CARIFTA Games, FIFA World Cup Qualifier between Bermuda and the Bahamas, FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, he also shoots swim events and went home to Bermuda specifically to capture some of the America’s Cup races. He was also recently featured in N Photo Magazine, a Nikon-centric globally distributed magazine for his Sports Photography work. Guilden has also had numerous images selected by Blank Wall, an Athens, Greece art gallery for exhibit. He recently received Honourable Mention in two large global photography contests, the International Photographers Award and the Tokyo International Foto Awards. His work has been purchased and hangs on walls globally.

Guilden is also an executive and photographer with the Bahamian Project, a project designed to capture portraits of average Bahamians with the view to establishing a National Portrait Archive.

Today Guilden has come full circle and is once again shooting and developing film, specifically Medium Format film. He says, “There is just something organic about shooting film and there is nothing quite like the feeling of pulling a developed roll of film out of the developing cannister to see the images created. Shooting film will certainly test your knowledge of proper exposure and composition because the negative does not lie about what you have produced.”

Guilden, along with another local photographer made a decision, two years ago, that they will teach photography because to have gained so much knowledge over nearly 40 years of photograph and not share that knowledge does a dis-service to the art form. The class range from Beginner’s Photography to Advanced Studio and Outdoor Lighting and are held in partnership with Queen’s College Centre for Further Education.

ANTONIUS ROBERTS, OBE (b.1958 Nassau, The Bahamas) has one daughter Ayla Antonia Roberts and is married to Dr Annette Warren-Roberts. Roberts graduated in 1981 from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a BFA in Painting.  As the former coordinator of FINCO Summer Art Workshops and as a teacher and lecturer at Government High School and The College of The Bahamas (now University of The Bahamas), Roberts has mentored a generation of young Bahamian artists.  He conceived of and coordinated the first Junior Junkanoo competition and parade in 1983, celebrating ten years of Bahamian Independence. He served as the Curator of The Central Bank of The Bahamas’ Art Gallery until 2017, and was the architect and coordinator of their annual Competitions and Exhibitions until 2006; and played a supportive role in the restoration of the former Villa Doyle and its conversion to the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.  Additionally Roberts founded The Bahamian Art Gallery in 1991 which was responsible for the reintroduction of master artists Kendal Hanna and Jo Monks – USA Boy. That same year he curated the largest exhibition of Amos Ferguson’s work at The Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Gallery and encouraged The Right Honorable Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling to approve the purchase of twenty five (25) paintings from that exhibition. These paintings formed the beginning of the National Art Collection of The Bahamas. In recognition of his contribution to national development in the arts, Roberts was a recipient of a Commonwealth of The Bahamas Silver Jubilee Award and of the E. Clement Bethel Award from The College of The Bahamas, as well as the Ministry of Tourism’s Cacique Award for the Arts in 2000.  As an artist Roberts has participated in exhibitions around the world and has mounted many within The Bahamas.  In 2005 Roberts spent one month in Pietrasanta, Italy working in marble and granite as part of the International Professional Artist Symposium and Exchange. In 2006 he was invited to exhibit in Changchun, China and his 12’ bronze sculpture is permanently installed there.  As a sculptor Roberts is best known for the first Sacred Space project at the historic Clifton Heritage site. This work was expanded by the installation at the Blake Road Welcome Centre.  Another group of Sacred Women travelled to Wiesbaden, Germany for the Funky Nassau Exhibition and then were exhibited at The Nassau Art Gallery of The Bahamas, with a similar installation now forming part of The Grand Bahama Heritage Foundation. On November 3, 2017, The Cove at Atlantis, Paradise Island debuted a permanent art installation “Sacred Space” on the tip of The Cove’s peninsula. This sculpture series, represents seven dancing women who each depict the intention of triumph, hope, determination and a vision to help conserve Bahamian Heritage. As an open space designer, in 2009 Roberts designed and directed the creation of the seven acre park at Centreville House, an integral part of the revitalization programme in downtown Nassau. In 2011 he participated in the Master Artists of The Bahamas Exhibition at the Waterloo Centre for the Arts in Iowa. His artwork Bubbles was installed as part of the expansion of the Lynden Pindling International Airport’s final phase in 2013. Roberts was the Artist in Residence at Schooner Bay, Abaco, for several years, and in 2017 established a relationship with the Island School in Eleuthera. In 2012, he opened an art gallery and studio on Cumberland Street in a centuries’ old historic building known as Hillside House, which has become an active centre for the creative community. His ethos connecting man’s spiritual and emotional nature and nature itself, and his desire to record and honour Bahamian heritage, is inherent in all of his paintings and sculptures.
A member of The Charitable Arts Foundation for over twenty years, Roberts along with other council members, continue to raise significant funding for the creative community in The Bahamas. These funds are available on an annual bases for art education, grants for short and full length films, art projects, music projects, play writers, poets, musicians and support of national art institutions.