Detail of a painting by Sir Llewellyn Xavier
Detail of a painting by Sir Llewellyn Xavier
Detail of a painting by Sir Llewellyn Xavier
Detail of a painting by Sir Llewellyn Xavier
Detail of a painting by Sir Llewellyn Xavier
Detail of a painting by Sir Llewellyn Xavier
Detail of a painting by Sir Llewellyn Xavier
Detail of a painting by Sir Llewellyn Xavier

Paintings

Global Council

Mixed Media

Watercolours

Sir Llewellyn Xavier KCMG OBE

Knighted at Windsor.
Honoured by France.

In 2025 Sir Llewellyn Xavier was invested as a Knight Commander at Windsor Castle, and France named him an Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Both honours mark close to seventy years of work, from Saint Lucia to the collections of the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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  • Windsor Castle, 2025

    Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George

    KCMG

  • Résidence de France, Saint Lucia, 2025

    Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

    Awarded by the French Minister of Culture

Reviews

Work from the Global Council for Restoration of the Earth’s Environment by Sir Llewellyn Xavier
Work from the Global Council for Restoration of the Earth’s Environment by Sir Llewellyn Xavier
Work from the Global Council for Restoration of the Earth’s Environment by Sir Llewellyn Xavier
Work from the Global Council for Restoration of the Earth’s Environment by Sir Llewellyn Xavier
Work from the Global Council for Restoration of the Earth’s Environment by Sir Llewellyn Xavier
Work from the Global Council for Restoration of the Earth’s Environment by Sir Llewellyn Xavier
Work from the Global Council for Restoration of the Earth’s Environment by Sir Llewellyn Xavier

The work is dedicated to my wife Christina Xavier


Artist Statement

Growing up in abject poverty on the tiny Caribbean island of Saint Lucia and going to school without shoes and having to walk eight miles to and from school each day, meant that I was seldom on time for roll call. The school consisted of one single room. The Headmaster’s desk was at one end of the room on a makeshift platform. I left at the age of fourteen, soon after embarking on a wild and riotous, hedonistic global quest ostensibly to find my true self, eventually landing at a silent monastery in Montreal, Canada.

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    GALLERY REPRESENTATION​
    • Unix Gallery, 507 W 27th St, New York, NY 10001, United States
    • Mucciaccia Art, Rome, Cortina D’Ampezzo, Singapore, London, New York
    Exhibitions
    • Unix Gallery, New York, USA
    • Phillips, Park Avenue, New York, USA (Blue Ocean Sanctuary)
    • Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
    • Oxford University, Oxford, England
    Works in selected Permanent Collections
    • The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
    • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
    • The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    • The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England