THE VILLAGE IDIOT WRITES AN ART REVIEW

Maria Gilbert’s work is many things to the eye and chunkily delicious is just one phrase that describes her figurative compositions and representations.

Possessing the true artist’s rapier eye for light and shade, line and colour and graphic positioning she sets her aesthetic table out in a calm but still easily calculated way that sates the viewers appetite for a warming boldness but also delivers the cooler emotional flavours of pensiveness, fear and introspection. Her eye catching canvases are the diagrams of the diary of a present day artist. As a voracious Voodoo Queen from post modern Haiti and twice married into the Papa Doc Duvalier dynasty she commands six figure prices for her canvases some of which she makes out of the starched and stretched skins of unripe bananas. She smokes a pipe and chews tabaccy.