My father-in-law, Walter Rammelaere, passed away recently. He was, among other things, an amateur photographer and when my husband, Marc, rummaged through his photographic files recently, he found photographs of a long-forgotten visit to the self-taught, "Intuitive" Jamaican artist Leonard Daley (1930-2006), who lived in the hills of St Catherine. I have reproduced a few... Continue Reading →
The Mat-Making Tradition of Sane Mae Dunkley
Sane Mae “Mama Lane” Dunkley, who passed away unexpectedly just before the end of 2017, was a significant culture bearer from Jamaica. Of rural origins from St Elizabeth but based in Jones Town, Kingston for most of her adult life, she was part of an extended family in which popular textile and fibre traditions had... Continue Reading →