In the artephemera®com office hangs a special gallery exhibition poster which reminds us daily that --- despite the prevailing notion of social and institutional recognition determining whether or not you are 'somebody' whose work is worthy of acknowledgement --- who we are is not as important nor as interesting as what we do. That said, our mission is to serve the vision of Karl "Parboo" Parboosingh (1923-1975) --- made clear in his speech at the opening of his last exhibiti

"Every time an artist dies, God lets them paint the sky so they can say goodbye." There is something to that unattributed quote; for the night sky after Gene Pearson's death was grey, and damp and as dense as a mass of wet clay ready to be thrown. Pearson's death followed that of his former wife's, abstract artist Lady Jacqueline Hussey Pearson; and pioneering water-colourist Dorothy Henriques Wells made her transition too this month, albeit more gently. We mourn their passi