Title: Lanme Frape (High Sea)
Date: 2025
From: Port-au-Prince
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 16 x 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:
In Lanme Frape , Ghesilhomme captures a moment of radiant solitude and quiet wonder. A single boat with vibrant red and blue sails glides across a golden sea, the horizon kissed by a burning sun. Above, a lone bird flies — a symbol of freedom and distance — while a distant island watches in stillness.
The canvas is alive with warmth: the sky shifts from fiery orange to soft amber, reflecting off gentle ripples of the water. Yet amid the intensity of color, there’s a deep calm — an unspoken dialogue between nature and journey.
Ghesilhomme invites us to consider not just where we’re going, but how we move through the light. This is a painting about direction, presence, and the quiet majesty of navigating the unknown beneath the setting sun.
Title: Lanme Frape (High Sea)
Date: 2025
From: Port-au-Prince
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 16 x 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:
In Lanme Frape , Ghesilhomme captures a moment of radiant solitude and quiet wonder. A single boat with vibrant red and blue sails glides across a golden sea, the horizon kissed by a burning sun. Above, a lone bird flies — a symbol of freedom and distance — while a distant island watches in stillness.
The canvas is alive with warmth: the sky shifts from fiery orange to soft amber, reflecting off gentle ripples of the water. Yet amid the intensity of color, there’s a deep calm — an unspoken dialogue between nature and journey.
Ghesilhomme invites us to consider not just where we’re going, but how we move through the light. This is a painting about direction, presence, and the quiet majesty of navigating the unknown beneath the setting sun.
