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    Llewellyn Xavier is represented in the permanent collection of:
    The Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC,
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
    The Museum of Modern Art, New York,
    Ulster Museum, Belfast,
    The Victoria and Albert Museum, London,
    The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England,
    The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto,
    Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool,
    National Gallery, Jamaica;
    To name a few and his work is avidly collected throughout the world.

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  • Llewellyn Xavier, Saint Lucia’s pre-eminent artist, was born on the island in 1945.  In 1961, he was working as an agricultural apprentice when a friend gave him a box of watercolour paints.  This event marked the beginning of Xavier’s lifelong passion for using art to express his view of the world around him, and he went on to hone his talent at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax.  Xavier’s work has taken him from the Caribbean to the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada where he gained a significant following and where his work has become a part of both public and private collections.

     

    In 2004, Llewellyn Xavier was made a member of the Order of the British Empire in recognition for his contribution to art.   He is also a founding member of the Saint Lucia Environment Development Awareness Council and a life member of the Art Gallery of Ontario.

     

    For a full biography, please click here.

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    Llewellyn Xavier devotes much of his energy to oil paintings created using a technique he has refined over forty years. Known for their luminous colours that reflect the light and life of the Caribbean, his paintings are prized by a loyal following of collectors and by visitors to Saint Lucia alike.

    In 1993, Xavier’s intense concern for the environment led to his masterpiece, Global Council for Restoration of the Earth’s Environment, which had its world premier at Patrick Cramer Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland in May of that year. The work incorporated recycled materials, 18th- and 19th-century prints of birds, animals, fish and plants, many of them now extinct, and postage stamps from around the world, as well as the signatures of world environmental leaders and conservationists.

    This seminal environmental work was followed by Environment Fragile, a series comprised of recycled cardboard, near-empty paint cans, and shards of 24-carat gold. These materials work together to represent the devastation on the natural environment and the high cost its destruction will bring to humankind. Environment Fragile was featured on a series of four stamps issued by the Saint Lucia Post Office in 2006.

     

    In addition to oil paintings and these collage-based installations, Llewellyn Xavier’s oeuvre includes drawings, watercolors and mixed-media works.

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    Llewellyn Xavier: His Life and Work documents the career of St. Lucia's premier artist known worldwide for his extraordinary watercolours and oil paintings as well as for creating the concept of mail art now used globally by contemporary artists. The book is a comprehensive look at Xavier's work from the 1960s to the present, including the masterpiece series Global Council for Restoration of the Earth's Environment, which was completed in 1993 to raise awareness about the wanton destruction of the natural world.
    His Life and Work
    Narrated by Edward Lucie-Smith, the British writer, poet, photographer, art critic, and curator who has authored more than 100 books on art, Llewellyn Xavier: His Life and Work includes a foreword that places the artist in a historic and global context written by Lowery Stokes Sims, an art historian, who has served as a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and president of The Studio Museum in Harlem.

     

    Archer-Shaw, P., Bailey, D., and Richard J. Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the

    Racial Imaginary. (2005) Exhibition catalogue. Whitechapel Gallery, London:

    Whitechapel Gallery.

       

    • Walmsley, A. (1992), The Caribbean Artists Movement: A Literary and Cultural

    History 1966-1972. London: New Beacon Books

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    Poupeye, V. (ed) Caribbean Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998.



    • Money, G. (1990) Nine Lives of a Bush Banker. London: Merlin Books Ltd.



    • Davies, H. (2001) A Walk Around the West Indies. London: Orion

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    Gall, T. (2009) Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life: Americas.

    Farmington Hills: Gale

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    Cummins, A. and Thompson, A. (1999) Art in Barbados: Ian Randle

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    Oils 

    Oils Seventh Sense - Oil on Canvas LX THE VORTEX - oil on canvas - 36 x 30 inches LX THE MAGNIFICAT - oil on canvas - 36 x 30 inches LX MASQUERADE - oil on canvas - 36 x 30 inches LX - MOON NYMPHS - oil on canvas - 36 x 30 inches LX THE CORONATION OF MING CHENGZU - oil on canvas - 36 x 30 inches LX - CAPRICIA - oil on canvas - 40 x 30 inches LX INDIAN LADIES IN SILK SARIS - oil on canvas - 40 x 30 inches STILL LIFE WITH MING VASE - oil on canvas - 40 x 30 inches Blue Vase - Oil on Canvas - 60 x 36 inches Sing Unto The Lord - Oil on Canvas Firefly V - Oil on Canvas - 60 x 36 inches Firefly VII - Oil on Canvas - 60 x 36 inches

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    Watercolours 

    Watercolours Watercolour on Arches Paper - Colour Fusion - 12 x 22 inches Watercolour on Arches Paper - Lilac Yellow Turquoise - 9 x 16 inches Watercolour on Arches Paper - Song of the Mermaids - 12.5 x 18 inches Watercolour on Arches Paper - Eye of the Dragonfly - 14 x 20 inches Watercolour on Arches Paper - Emerald Valley - 18 x 6 inches

    Watercolours

    Mixed Media 

    Mixed Media Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - Peace - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - Calligraphy - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - The Mermaid's Perfume Bottle - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - Purple and Green - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - Petroschka - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - Japanese Vases - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - The Filmstar - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - The Queen and the Swan - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - Trophies - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - Still Life - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - Parrots and pre-Columbian Artefacts - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - The Cuckoo's Nest - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - Gold Cello - 30 x 22inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - Blue Vase - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - The King's Urn - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - Fern Garden - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - Morning of the Bride - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - Faenza - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - Nudes - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - Rigoletto - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - Lady in Bronze - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - Renaissance - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - Homage to Nicholson and Hepworth - 30 x 22 inches Global Council for Restoration of the Earth - The Kingfisher Jar - 30 x 22 inches

    Mixed Media

    Conceptual Art 

    Edition Prints Pitons - Limited Edition Prints Spirit of Freedom - Open Edition Print

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    Drawings 

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