Title: Rityel (Rituals)
Date: 2025
From: Port-au-Prince
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20 x 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:
Rityel is a vivid still life that pays tribute to the layered rhythms of Haitian identity, both sacred and celebratory. At its center is a bottle of Haitian rum, a lit candle, and enamel mugs. Each a familiar fixture in spiritual rituals and ancestral offerings. A vibrant red-and-black-wrapped chacha, a traditional percussive instrument, evokes the pulse of Rara and Carnival season, when sound, spirit, and movement become one. The composition invites the viewer to reflect on how everyday objects carry the dual weight of devotion and joy in Haitian culture, where music is memory, rum is reverence, and light is a call to presence.
Title: Rityel (Rituals)
Date: 2025
From: Port-au-Prince
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20 x 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:
Rityel is a vivid still life that pays tribute to the layered rhythms of Haitian identity, both sacred and celebratory. At its center is a bottle of Haitian rum, a lit candle, and enamel mugs. Each a familiar fixture in spiritual rituals and ancestral offerings. A vibrant red-and-black-wrapped chacha, a traditional percussive instrument, evokes the pulse of Rara and Carnival season, when sound, spirit, and movement become one. The composition invites the viewer to reflect on how everyday objects carry the dual weight of devotion and joy in Haitian culture, where music is memory, rum is reverence, and light is a call to presence.
