Arthur Atkinson

Born in Barbados in 1945, Atkinson has lived the greater part of his life there except for three years in Grenada.  He returned to Barbados from Grenada in the late sixties when he started to exhibit.  This artist is known both for his abstract as well as representational work.  His paintings are collected widely with a number of pieces in the Barbados National Collection and the Art Collection Foundation of Barbados.

Atkinson is an Art Director with an advertising agency; GHA Inc. and has worked with The Barbados Dance Theatre Company and other performing companies as Set Designer.  He is a keen horticulturist with a collection of Tropical Bonsai.

His wife Hetty is a past Artistic Director of The Barbados Dance Theatre Company and they have two sons.

SOME EXHIBITIONS
1969  Expo ’69 – Grenada
1971  Barbados Exhibit – XI Biennial de Sao Paulo
1972  Carifesta – Guyana
1972  Contemporary Art from The Caribbean – OAS, USA
1976  Carifesta – Jamaica
1979  Carifesta – Cuba
1980  Art Today in Barbados – OAS Washington DC, USA
1981  Carifesta – Barbados
1981  BDTC Exhibit – Albany, New York, USA
1984  11th World Orchid Conference, Miami, USA
1986  Barbadian Art – Caribbean Focus – London, UK
1990  Selectd Works, The Art Collection Foundation – OAS, Washington, DC, USA
1991  Contemporary Painting of Latin America and the Caribbean – Nagoya, Japan
1992  1st Caribbean & Central American Biennial of Painting – Santo Domingo
1993  500 years after: Caribbean & Central American Painting – OAS, Washington, DC, USA
1994  The Purchase Award, Crop Over Exhibition – The Central Bank of Barbados
1994  The Ivan Payne Award, N.I.F.C.A. – Barbados
1996  3rd Caribbean & Central America Biennial of Painting – Santo Domingo
199?  IDC Barbadian Art – Paris, France
1998  Barbajan Ideas & Images – Solo Show, Queen’s Park Gallery, Barbados
2001  Calypso – Solo Show, Zemicon Gallery, Bridgetown, Barbados