Title : Chemen Soley (Sun’s Path)
Date: 2025
From: Port-au-Prince
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 16 × 20inches
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:
On the Sun’s Path is a luminous meditation on passage, guidance, and the quiet power of endings. A lone sailboat drifts across dark waters, its crimson sails aglow in the brilliance of a sinking sun. The horizon dissolves into fire and reflection, creating a radiant trail that stretches toward infinity — a path both fragile and eternal.
Through the contrast of deep shadows and molten light, Ghesilhomme captures the mystery of transition: the close of day as a beginning of another journey. The sailboat becomes more than vessel — it is the traveler itself, carried forward by trust in the path the sun leaves behind.
Title : Chemen Soley (Sun’s Path)
Date: 2025
From: Port-au-Prince
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 16 × 20inches
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:
On the Sun’s Path is a luminous meditation on passage, guidance, and the quiet power of endings. A lone sailboat drifts across dark waters, its crimson sails aglow in the brilliance of a sinking sun. The horizon dissolves into fire and reflection, creating a radiant trail that stretches toward infinity — a path both fragile and eternal.
Through the contrast of deep shadows and molten light, Ghesilhomme captures the mystery of transition: the close of day as a beginning of another journey. The sailboat becomes more than vessel — it is the traveler itself, carried forward by trust in the path the sun leaves behind.
