Title: Sezon Lapech (Fishing Season)
Date: 2025
From: Port-au-Prince
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 16 × 20 inches
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:
Sezon Lapech is a meditation on movement, solitude, and trust in the unseen. A lone sailor, silhouetted against an expanse of deep blue, leans into the wind aboard a modest wooden boat. His sail, bathed in golden light, catches not only the wind but the spirit of quiet determination.
Painted with Ghesilhomme’s signature balance of precision and poetry, this piece reflects the rhythms of coastal life in Haiti — where the sea is both livelihood and mystery. In Where the Sea Leads Me, the journey is as sacred as the destination, and the figure becomes a symbol of resilience in motion, guided by nature, memory, and faith.
Title: Sezon Lapech (Fishing Season)
Date: 2025
From: Port-au-Prince
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 16 × 20 inches
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:
Sezon Lapech is a meditation on movement, solitude, and trust in the unseen. A lone sailor, silhouetted against an expanse of deep blue, leans into the wind aboard a modest wooden boat. His sail, bathed in golden light, catches not only the wind but the spirit of quiet determination.
Painted with Ghesilhomme’s signature balance of precision and poetry, this piece reflects the rhythms of coastal life in Haiti — where the sea is both livelihood and mystery. In Where the Sea Leads Me, the journey is as sacred as the destination, and the figure becomes a symbol of resilience in motion, guided by nature, memory, and faith.
