These watercolour sketches by Jackie Hinkson — official artist for the NGC Bocas Lit Fest 2020 commemorative poster — capture the rural and urban landscapes of Trinidad with the artist’s characteristic fluency of gesture. They share an avid attentiveness to how the imagination resolves what the eye perceives — details of colour, light and shadow, distance and perspective — into strong, compelling forms and patterns. Their depiction of ordinary everyday moments — a simple beach lime, flying a kite on the Queen’s Park Savannah, a driving excursion, or a visit to a neighbourhood parlour — reminds us of the familiar “normal” to which we long to return.
One Kite Rises Again
The Essential Parlour
The Road to …
Small in the Landscape
Family Together
© Copyright Jackie Hinkson
Courtesy the artist