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Guyanese Artists
I've noticed that there is little or no mention of the Guyanese Artists who blazed the trail in the field of arts - Painting, Drawing and sculpture during the 80s through the 90s into the 2000s. These relatively young Guyanese artists are seemingly completely forgotten especially if they did not attend the formal Borrows School of Arts. But what we must bring ourselves to realize, is that many celebrated and successful artists in the world at large were not formally trained. If we study our history well we will notice that the leaders in the field were free of the shackles of institutional shackles and dogmas. The renaissance man himself Leonardo Da Vinci who changed the world in numerous was far from being institutionalized. So those of you with the power to make official pronouncements of who is who in Guyana, please make some effort to document and publish information on these very significant Art pioneers of the 80s through the 2000s, Peter Chester "Ras Ita" Carl Anderson, Kenton Wyatt, Mervin Wilson, Gagidar, Angol Thompsons, Braithwait, Ellis, Dudley Charles, Collette Jones, Just to mention a few. There are many more that don't come to mind presently. However, these artists are the ones that inspired the development of the Castellani Gallary. Long before it was considered fit to be a gallery the artists mentioned lead by Peter Chester Ita, Kenton A Wyatt and Mervin Wilson lobbied the office of the president and the department of culture to mount an art exhibition in the castellani building. It was a sterling success. It was that event that spawned the idea to develop Castellani House as the National Art Gallery. The first National Drawing Competition held by the gallery was won By Kenton A.Wyatt for his Pen and Ink rendition of a Significant Old Building of Traditional Colonial architecture. In concluding I wish to mention that the children of Guyana need to be properly educated about these very artists who feature from time to time in their CXC art SBAs So please make more available to them. They are the future.