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.