Stanwyck E. Cromwell

      Stanwyck E. Cromwell is a Guyanese-born, second-generation visual artist and a retired Adjunct Art Professor, who has spent the vast amount of his adult life, in the United States of America, and currently resides in the state of Connecticut. Despite his lengthy absence from his country of origin, his memories of Guyana, are abundantly rich. A visual kaleidoscope from this exotic place, is continually referenced in his work. Saturated colors and patterns, reveal themselves in his paintings, drawings and mix-media works. Sometimes his subject matter is abstract forms, while others are about self. His self-portraits are both autobiographical and mythical mirrors, through which he is able to reflect on, from his past, by reminiscing about the Guyana that he once knew as a child.

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Wide noses and thick lips are frequent in most of his work, not as cultural stereotypes, but to emphasize the natural beauty of African features, which he finds, sculpturally strong, ruggedly handsome, and spiritually connected to his work. Most of the symbols used in his work, are used metaphorically, and vary in interpretation.