Topic: Gladwyn Bush

The work of self-taught artists, often referred to as 'intuitives', from the Cayman Islands will be in the spotlight for the National Museum’s latest exhibition, ‘Conversations with Popular Art,’ which opens on 23 May, as part of Cayman Art Week.

A couple who bought artwork by visionary artist Gladwyn K. Bush, better known as Miss Lassie, more than two decades ago has gifted the paintings to the Cayman Islands.

Two “national treasures” of the Cayman Islands, Gladwyn “Miss Lassie” Bush and “Aunt” Julia Hydes, will be recognized with specially crafted headstones to mark their graves. Premier Alden McLaughlin, as Cayman’s culture minister, handed over a $24,000 check for the headstones to the Cayman National Cultural Foundation.

Somewhere between 2008 and 2012, Randy Chollette’s brain exploded. It remains a mystery as to what happened, but National Gallery of the Cayman Islands (NGCI) Director Natalie Urquhart may know. In her superb, 100-page “The Art of the Cayman Islands,” Ms. Urquhart curates dozens and dozens of pictures - bright, concise and detailed photographs of artwork drawn from NGCI’s permanent collection and unnamed “private holdings.”