The National Gallery, Castellani House is currently hosting an exhibition, ‘Donald Locke and the Artists of the Independence Era.’
The exhibition, which runs until August 31, features the work of artists who “in their individual searches for style and technique and a personal idiom of expression, seemed to mirror the questioning of the wider society as the new era of an independent Guyana began,” according to the National Gallery.
The works on display in the first floor gallery are from a “gifted second generation” of Guyanese artists, it added in a statement. They include paintings from an influential group that comprised Locke, Stanley Greaves,
