Over the past decade Kerwin G. Ebanks has developed a style of “detailed accounts of everyday Caymanian life [that] are given a contemporary touch with clever references to the popular culture of today.”1  Drawing on daily personal experiences, a repertoire of skills garnered from university studies, self-discovery and teaching art, have helped to define an aesthetic that is uniquely Kerwin’s.

 

Ebanks continues to push the boundaries of his creativity portraying “images not of a bygone era, but of Cayman today.”2 He is influenced by great American painter, Winslow Homer for his many seascapes and localizes these arrangements with his familiarity with Cayman - its culture, its lifestyles, its attitudes, its heritage.

 

Ebanks' more conceptual artwork “uses historical or traditional themes with a contemporary spin – some canvases incorporate oils, acrylics and water colours; others he painted, in part, using coffee and tea; and still others include batik print or burned crayon.”

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For his sculptural and functional works, as well as his mosaics, Ebanks utilizes refuses that have been swept unto the shores of the islands  from elsewhere.

 

His work is a part of numerous collections including the Cayman Islands National Museum and National Gallery of the Cayman Islands.

 

1 Turnbull, Lindsey; The Journal, Cayman Free Press, 2011

2 Bridgeman, David; Curatorial Statement, Butterfield Bank, 2012

3 Isacoff, Judith; The Caymanian Compass, Cayman Free Press, 2011