Cuban artist exhibits for Women’s Day

The exhibition is called “Revelaciones”, and comes to us courtesy of the Cuban Embassy in honour of International Women’s Day. This morning Jacqueline Woods spoke to the artist as she prepared for tonight’s opening at the Mexican Cultural Institute.

Jacqueline Woods, Reporting

Marod Simpson has been painting since she was a little girl. There are no specific scenes she likes to capture on canvass, but simply enjoys painting pictures that she believes are the essence of life.

Marod Simpson, Artist

“The ideas just come to my mind and in fact I do not have one item, one specific picture. What I have is a specific way of doing it. I have been discovering this way, I want to paint everything, Women, that I am, men, children, nature, sadness, happiness everything that has to do with life.

I felt the need to paint, to create. I do not only paint pictures, I have also done work in ceramics, I have worked with wood, and now I am in the process of consolidating my art. The strongest inspiration moving me to paint is nature and on several occasions, my feelings and moods take me to express myself through colours and shapes.”

Six months ago, Simpson along with her husband, Luis, who is also an artist, were invited to Belize to hold a special exhibition for Women’s Week. The paintings are new and were specifically done for the occasion.

Marod Simpson

“First, the experience of bringing an exhibition to Belize as a homage of from here to all the women in the world, has been very, very interesting, deeply interesting. Why? First, because I think women are a temple of fertility for all humanity and we deserve a lot of tribute and homage.”

Jacqueline Woods, Reporting for News 5.

The paintings will be on display through March fourteenth at the Mexican Cultural Institute on the Barracks.