Photos by davyvon : on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

This is a night scene of my hometown of Portsmouth, which smiles like the Mona Lisa at night. She is reminiscent of the folktales about "Lougawu" that I enjoyed listening to under the moonlight.

One may wonder why these images recur so frequently in my paintings. Well, I first saw the image of Marcus Garvey at the shop of Mr. Isiah John at the corner of Bay and Hillsborough Streets, two properties apart. I lived and grew up at 70 Hillsborough St, Portsmouth for seventeen (17) of my formative years. I ashamedly did not find out who Marcus Garvey was until I moved to New York City in the last semester of my college career at York College, C.U.N.Y. The combination is now self-explanatory why I have placed both images in a parallel universe.

These are the chromatic delights that are reflected in my paintings.

This painting is in the collection of the Dominica Museum, Bay front , Roseau, Dominica. It reflects the scenic crepuscular delights that I memorized in Portsmouth as I was growing up there.

This is the type of crepuscular delight that I enjoyed and memorized throughout my childhood in this town, Portsmouth, Dominica. They are now reflected in my paintings.The ubiquitous double mountains, the Cabrits show up in many of my paintings.

This is the church at which I made my first communionin 1961 and confirmation in May 1965. In this same church, I was first introduced to art. I was wont to spend the entire mass looking at the fourteen paintings that represent the Way of the Cross. David G. Wilson