Haitian Landscape

Joseph Jean-Gilles, whose subjects are based on the myriad flowering forms and rolling hills of Haiti’s tropical landscape, depicts the scenes of his homeland as a poet might compose an idyll in the Garden of Eden. Jean-Gilles is not alone among Haitian artists in pursuing this theme, but he is almost unique in pursuing it for so many years. This is the painting of an artist who, through the perfection of his craft, has grown away from those spontaneous reactions and improvisations that are hallmarks of the visionary artist.