© DOONGALIK STUDIOS ART GALLERY NEWSLETTER

August 2010—
2010—Volume 4, Issue 8
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PROMOTING THE VISION: ”By the Year 2020 more visitors will be attracted to The Bahamas by Bahamian Art, Culture and
Heritage than by sun, sand and sea.”

MAX TAYLOR’S ‘REMNANTS’ WALK & TALK—This month we are pleased to present the first installment of
Max Taylor’s Walk and Talk from the Opening in addition to a short video of this Bahamian Master demonstrat-
ing his wood cut print making process! Please log on to our website www.doongalik.com to view it!!
Remember you can still see the Exhibition which will be on display at #18 Village Road until September 24,
Monday—Friday 9am—5pm! We look forward to seeing you soon!

MUSICAL LEGENDS—Bahamian music was STUDENTS VISIT—Max has dedicated

popular during the 80s and I wanted to pay
tribute to some female legends. This watercolor
painting shows at the forefront Bahamian song-
bird Eloise Lewis as well as singer Priscilla
Rollins, classical pianist Meta Cumberbatch,
and Doris Johnson. I used a dry brush tech-
nique for this and was inspired by Charles
White to write the names in the painting as well.
WOODEN SCULPTURE—These
sculpture are made from many lay-
ers of plywood that I first glue to-
gether securely then cut into shape
with a chainsaw. I am very safety
conscious when using this tool!
his life to exposing students to the won-
ders and beauty of art. Two groups of
students visited the Exhibition, one from
the Ministry of Education’s Art Programme
(seen above with the artist) as well as a
group from the Bahamas Girl Guides As-
sociation’s Summer Camp (seen below).

SAVE WE TINGS—I produced this

woodcut a couple of years ago to pro- INSIDE THIS ISSUE
mote awareness of our many indige- MAX TAYLOR’S
nous animals and plants that we should
IT’S A BLUE DAY—I love jazz and blues ‘REMNANTS’ EXHIBITION
be preserving and protecting for future 1
WALK & TALK Part I
music. Musicians and singers have always generations. After printing it in black I
been an inspiration to me as subject matter added color with acrylic paints to make it DOONGALIK NEWS 2
for my paintings. more distinguishable. NEW ADDITIONS 3

UPCOMING ART SHOWS
We have been busy preparing for an
exciting array of Art Exhibitions all the
way into 2011 - so mark your calen-
dars now for these fantastic shows in
2010!!
PARADISE ISLAND GALLERY
OCTOBER—Roddie Pinder’s All
Wood Show will open on Thursday
November 4 and be on display until
Wednesday November 10. You will be
treated to exquisite designer wood
works!
NOVEMBER—Max Taylor’s second
Show this year, “Jazzblutings” will
Open on November 19 and be on dis-
play until Friday December 10. This
will be a show of smaller acrylic paint-
ings depicting musicians as well as
snippets of Bahamian life.
VILLAGE ROAD GALLERY
OCTOBER—Doongalik Studios in
collaboration with Carter Market-
ing will honour the late Bahamian art-
ists, Tony McKay and Joseph
Spence with a month long exhibition
and events consisting of art, memora-
bilia, recollections and music drawn
from several local collections of the
artists' many friends.
The year 2010 marks 40 years since
the release of Tony McKay's album
"Exuma The Obeah Man", as well as
Joseph Spence's 100th birthday. This
multi-media celebration is being or-
ganized, therefore, as a fitting salute
to two giants of Bahamian heritage.
NOVEMBER— We are also very ex-
cited about the upcoming Artists of
The Bahamas Exhibition which will
take place November 20 - December
10 and will display the artwork of the
11 artists featured in this wonderful
documentary produced by Karen Ar-
thur & Tom Neuwirth. The Exhibition
will be mounted in several galleries,
each of which will feature specific art-
ists at their location. It promises to be
an amazing display!
2011—We already have bookings for
5 Shows in 2011…. we will keep you
informed of all the exciting activities
that will accompany these events!
DOONGALIK NEWS
FROM DEATH TO BIRTH
I have an amazing story to share
with you….last month we experi-
enced an electrical fire in our yard
which destroyed a huge logwood
tree - thankfully nobody was hurt
but we bemoaned the ‘death’ of this
magnificent tree which toppled over
from the flames.
We immediately contacted Wood
Artists, Robin Hardy (below left) and
Antonius Roberts who arrived with
their chain saws to salvage the
wood—quite a daunting task!
Within two weeks Robin presented
me with this
beautiful
wooden bowl
which he had
turned from a
piece of the
wood from
the tree—thank you Robin!! (Notice
the image of the bird of hope/swimming
turtle at the inner edge. Isn’t nature
amazing?) This therefore is truly a
story of ‘death to birth’ and I will
keep you informed of other ‘births of
art’ that will emanate from this tree!!
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MARIE VISITS—former Doongalik Sales
Representative Marie Dupuch (left) who is
furthering her studies in Minnesota, visited
with Pam and Toby on a recent trip back
home.
DOONGALIK’S WORLD FAMOUS
DEAR HEART’S ICED TEA—Aptly
described as “the best iced tea in the
world!” and produced from a secret fam-
ily recipe passed on to Pam by her late
mother, Lona Thompson Jones, this bev-
erage has wowed persons from all around
the world for years!!!…...and it will be
available for sale at the Bahamas National
Trust’s monthly ‘Da Market’ on Saturday,
August 21 from 8am—1pm! We look for-
ward to seeing you there!
Do you enjoy fine art?
Would you like a
unique Bahamian ex-
perience?
Doongalik Studios can
arrange a personal
guided tour of local Art
Galleries just for you on
your next trip to Nas-
sau—contact us by
email for further infor-
mation.
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NEW ADDITIONS
AN T O N I U S JONATHAN BETHEL— We are
ROBERTS - so pleased to now have several
We welcome of Jonathan’s originals in various
Antonius sizes for sale in the gallery.
back with his
amazing Ma-
deira (native
mahogany)
wood sculp-
tures from
his Sacred JANE WATEROUS—Jane has
Woman Se- delivered a smaller People
ries! painting—this one is called
“In Line”.
BRENT MALONE – Brent’s
daughter, Marysa has delivered
this giclee on canvas of Brent’s CHANTAL BE-
famous ‘Lucayan Sea Goddess’ THEL—We have
that he painted in 1977. a new original
from Chantal’s
striking gold leaf
series which are
always popular.
Chantal lives and
works in Freeport, A L I S T A I R
Grand Bahama. STEVENSON—
This art student
has brought in
another ceramic
seahorse sculpture
NEW ARTIST ISHBEL MAC-
DONALD—We welcome Ishbel
RODDIE PINDER—A new ship- to the Doongalik Family! This
ment of Roddie Pinder’s wooden artist, also from Freeport,
bowls and boxes, several from Grand Bahama has a beautiful
beautiful tamarind wood, have variety of note cards in two CARIFRINGE is coming..
just been received. sizes.
This October The Bahamas will
host the first Annual
CARIFRINGE Art Festival here in
Nassau from October 1—11.
Check out the website
www.carifringe.org for more
information on the wide variety of
artistic happenings that will be
taking place. This will be an
excellent time to visit Nassau for
an exciting variety of Bahamian
and regional art and cultural
events!! Book now!!