Title:Communion
Date: 2025
From: Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 20 × 16 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:
Lalin nan Men’m is a meditation on light, power, and self-possession. Against the vast stillness of a night sky, a woman kneels by the water’s edge, her silhouette illuminated by a radiant moon cradled in her palms. Behind her, the golden orb of the setting sun and its shimmering reflection create an atmosphere both mystical and intimate.
Jameson Pierre captures the duality of night and day, strength and vulnerability, body and spirit. The woman’s form—anchored in darkness yet bathed in light—becomes a metaphor for inner illumination, for holding one’s own source of power amid uncertainty.
In Lalin nan Men’m, the sea and sky merge into one infinite horizon. The painting speaks of reflection and rebirth, a moment where the sacred and the self meet in quiet communion.
Title:Communion
Date: 2025
From: Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 20 × 16 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:
Lalin nan Men’m is a meditation on light, power, and self-possession. Against the vast stillness of a night sky, a woman kneels by the water’s edge, her silhouette illuminated by a radiant moon cradled in her palms. Behind her, the golden orb of the setting sun and its shimmering reflection create an atmosphere both mystical and intimate.
Jameson Pierre captures the duality of night and day, strength and vulnerability, body and spirit. The woman’s form—anchored in darkness yet bathed in light—becomes a metaphor for inner illumination, for holding one’s own source of power amid uncertainty.
In Lalin nan Men’m, the sea and sky merge into one infinite horizon. The painting speaks of reflection and rebirth, a moment where the sacred and the self meet in quiet communion.
