Rachel shows latest paintings
She has long been recognized as one of the nation’s most gifted artists…and while Rachel Heusner–married name Superville–now calls the island of Tobago home, she is always welcomed back in Belize. News 5’s Patrick Jones caught up with her today as she set up her latest exhibition.
Patrick Jones, Reporting
The kaleidoscope of colours that adorn the walls of the Image Factory come from the brush of Rachel Heusner Superville and her husband Martin. According to Superville, the watercolour paintings dubbed “Sunlit days” are her interpretation of life in the Caribbean.
Rachel Heusner Superville, Artist
“A lot of them just represent things that I think that people in the Caribbean basis could relate to, right now my husband and I, we sell our work all over the Caribbean and it’s important that the pieces, that people would relate to them. People like that type of thing.”
Twelve pieces make up Superville’s latest showing, which opens to the public on Monday and runs for four days. The artist, who lives in Tobago, says the inspiration for her paintings is as varied as the people of the region.
Rachel Heusner Superville
“Portions of my paintings are based on photography, because you don’t always get specific things that you have in mind placed in front of you. So sometimes you need to set up models to represent what you want. But a lot of the time I also go out and paint from life itself, because that makes the painting a lot more alive. A photograph could only record so much, but when you are looking nature in itself its fantastic.”
That fantasy comes to Belize after a very successful showing in New York. Superville says those who come to see her work, should do so with an open mind.
Rachel Heusner Superville
“I prefer the viewer to sit and form his own opinions because it’s a picture, it’s not a book that I have written words. So it gives for free expression and that interaction on the part of the viewer, as well as myself.”
Superville joins an impressive list of women–Sandra March, Lita Krohn and Pamela Braun–who have traded in traditional support roles for their male contemporaries and put their creative talents on canvass.
Rachel Heusner Superville
“Art is not a gender thing, I think art is mainly an expression that, you know, something that you do. It doesn’t matter whether you’re male or female.”
Patrick Jones, for News 5.
Heusner says that after next week’s exhibition she returns home to Tobago to continue work on her next project. All the pieces on display at the Image Factory are for sale.
