I was born in the Caribbean island-nation- The Commonwealth of Dominica (Dominica) I am a self-taught artist who has been painting for the past thirty-five(35) years. On emigrating to the USA in 1976, I became enamored of the museums in New York and was tremendously inspired to advance my painting. However, due to family issues, I chose not to study art (regrets that plague me constantly).
My frequent visits to museums in the USA and more recently London and Paris have served as my instructor. My predilection for visual puns was first stimulated when my mother, Mrs. Leoma A. Wilson, was teaching my late brother, Eddie, and me to read. Having asked Eddie to identify the map of Italy, which he couldn't do, my mother then gave him an unforgetable hint. She said, 'Italy is kicking Sicily'. My interest in the double entendre lyrics of my life-long calypsonian hero, The Mighty Sparrow, further enflamed my passion for visual puns. But the final catalyst that cemented my obsession with visual puns was my discovery of the double image paintings of Salvador Dalí, and my reading of Leonardo da Vinci's suggestion to the artist about enhancing his creative faculties, that made me realize that I had found the style in which I wanted to continue painting. So, I sought to exploit this style to the fullest extent possible, hopefully beyond the accomplishment of even Dalí himself in that genre.
