Date: 2025
From: Port-au-Prince
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 16×20 nches
Artist: Jean Batiste Guesilhom(Born 1971, Jérémie, Haiti)
Born and Raised in Jérémie in the Grand’Anse region, Jean Batiste Ghesilhomme began drawing at age 11 and later trained at La Grotte des Arts Plastiques in Port-au-Prince. After refining his craft in Santo Domingo, DR, he joined a collective of Haitian artists and became a founding member of FAPADECH.Since 2006, he has participated in Artisanat en Fête and exhibited annually at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti, as well as with the Canadian Embassy and at CARIFESTA 2016. Today, his paintings—marked by patience, precision, and quiet strength—are collected in Haiti, the U.S., Canada, and France.
Description:
Blood Moon Rising is a haunting meditation on nature’s beauty and mystery. Against a vast black sky, a glowing crimson moon emerges, its fiery reflection bleeding across still waters. A barren branch cuts into the frame, reaching toward the moon as though drawn to its otherworldly light.
With stark contrasts of shadow and flame, Ghesilhomme creates a scene that is both ominous and magnetic. The composition evokes themes of solitude, transformation, and the eternal cycles of night and rebirth. The painting is less a depiction of landscape than a vision of elemental forces — fire, darkness, and silence — bound together in a moment of fragile eternity.
Date: 2025
From: Port-au-Prince
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 16×20 nches
Artist: Jean Batiste Guesilhom(Born 1971, Jérémie, Haiti)
Born and Raised in Jérémie in the Grand’Anse region, Jean Batiste Ghesilhomme began drawing at age 11 and later trained at La Grotte des Arts Plastiques in Port-au-Prince. After refining his craft in Santo Domingo, DR, he joined a collective of Haitian artists and became a founding member of FAPADECH.Since 2006, he has participated in Artisanat en Fête and exhibited annually at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti, as well as with the Canadian Embassy and at CARIFESTA 2016. Today, his paintings—marked by patience, precision, and quiet strength—are collected in Haiti, the U.S., Canada, and France.
Description:
Blood Moon Rising is a haunting meditation on nature’s beauty and mystery. Against a vast black sky, a glowing crimson moon emerges, its fiery reflection bleeding across still waters. A barren branch cuts into the frame, reaching toward the moon as though drawn to its otherworldly light.
With stark contrasts of shadow and flame, Ghesilhomme creates a scene that is both ominous and magnetic. The composition evokes themes of solitude, transformation, and the eternal cycles of night and rebirth. The painting is less a depiction of landscape than a vision of elemental forces — fire, darkness, and silence — bound together in a moment of fragile eternity.
