Mélange Travel & Lifestyle Magazine APRIL 2019 | Page 426
Kelvin has developed his own style of painting.
His colleague, Mr. Derek Collymore of St James
parish Jamaica described it as NEO CUBISM, a
style of art which is not common to many. This
style borders on the horizon of abstraction and
surrealism and is unique to Kelvin. It is a direct
infl uence of his thinking outside of the box, and
the breaking down of shape and space into form.
He loves screen printing and print making and
anything he can scratch on a paper he would
convert into screens and print t- shirts. He also
does a lot of wood-cut and linoleum block
printing.
Kelvin’s love for art began as a child in primary
school when he would watch his friend as he
made carvings on wood or coconut shells. When
he entered secondary school at the age of 12, he
was fortunate to have had an art teacher from
America who was working as a volunteer worker
with UNESCO. It was that teacher, Mr Sanchez,
who made him aware of his artistic ability.
Kelvin Duberry
Artist
Kelvin is a graduate of the Edna Manley College,
Kingston Jamaica and on his home island of
Montserrat, he is fully immersed in the visual
arts. As a full-time art teacher at the Montserrat
Secondary School; an assistant marker of exams
for the Caribbean Examination Council; owner
of a small business off ering computerized
embroidery and screen printing services after
school and on weekends; an active musician
and a solo artist, his calendar is usually full,
but he paints and paints and paints, because
painting is his fi rst love and his passion!
Reading art books especially those which
featured European artists was something he
was fond of, and one artist stood out - Marcel
Duchamp - nude decending a staircase. Kelvin
has tried to emulate his work as much as possible.
By the time Kelvin graduated from secondary
school, he had already made the decision that
he would become an artist. Nothing could have
changed his mind. He has been an artist for more
than 40 years and have amassed more than two
hundred paintings over that time.
Out of all the paintings he has done, he considers
his most beautiful art work to be that of The
Highest himself featured below. It is a portrait
made by cutting into a cardboard and using the
dark interior to advance the lightness of the top
layer, thus producing one of his most fantastic
pieces. “I treasure all my works but this, I think, is
the mecca of my art as it has a spiritual link to the
Almighty himself.” Kelvin said
Some of Kelvin’s work is featured on his Facebook
page, Tabu Duberry, and in a few weeks his
website, www.de-ahtist.com will be live.