Figure at Treetop

Che Lovelace’s art originates primarily from his experience of living and working in Trinidad and Tobago. His paintings, rendered in a vivid assortment of pigments on combined board panels, are strongly rooted in depicting the dense, highly charged layers of the Trinidadian landscape. He sees this space as physical, social and spiritual. The subjects of his paintings emerge from and flow freely between the streets of Port of Spain, the rural natural vegetation, the human form and back to the interior of his studio.

Figure at Treetop originated in one of Lovelace’s dreams. In it he remembers being at one of the tall lookout points on the outskirts of Port of Spain from where he could survey the city. He recalls the identity of the figure in the tree as being both simultaneously himself and someone unknown. While making this piece, Lovelace retained as a mental reference Jean-Michel Cazabon’s painting, View of Port of Spain from Laventille Hill (1850).