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Felisha Mohammed: "A lot of Trinidadian parents don't value art as a school subject. But mine did. My parents have been very supportive, buying me paints and so on." - Mark Lyndersay
I come from Warrenville, Central Trinidad, and I've lived pretty much all my life there. We have family all over Trinidad and I've spent a lot of my youth in Arima, where my grandmother is from.
But my favourite part of Trinidad is the beach. As a child, we’d go to the beach a lot. Toco mainly. Or along the north coast.
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We have a mixed Venezuelan, Indian and black background. Those three are, like, the main ones. My mother’s dominantly Venezuelan. I speak
I had a really good pre-school teacher, Ms Aklima, who is still alive. Surprisingly. Because I remember her looking really old when I was a child. She looks the same now. She's a yoga instructor, just a very peaceful woman who made a great impact on me.
I didn't have a good time at primary school because I didn't like the group of kids I was around. I feel like, for children, there was too much drama.
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I wouldn't say I have been doing too well on practising religion. I think I'm deciding which faith I want to be in more because I've been introduced to the better part of all.
I listen happily to every kind of music except chutney music. I know I’ll get in trouble for saying so, but I can’t stand it.
My favourite band is Fleetwood Mac. Even if BC Pires calls it my grandparents’ music, I love Stevie Nicks. I know the band was first Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac and that they wrote Black Magic Woman. I love that song.
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But I was glad for it when it first started. It was a stressful time at school, the workload, and it felt like a miracle that I didn't have to go back.
I had CXC during covid and was really behind with the work with add math. I was so good at add math at physical school, but online, it was the most terrible thing.
Online, I was just kept back. My computer and phone mashed up and I had to do online class with a TV! It was crazy.
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But, to be honest, I just studied the night before the exams and I did well! I got five ones. But add math, I got a three.
At standard four or five there is this this CAC thing, where we had to do, like, agriculture and stuff and there was an art part of it, where we had to do drawings.
I don’t know what CAC means but it was part of the SEA. It could be Caribbean-Something-Something, as BC Pires suggests. (CAC is the continuous assessment component of the Secondary Entrance Assessment.) Everyone had to do it but I was really enjoying it.
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My standard four teacher, Ms Deaukee Lochan, was really impressed with my art. She was helping me and paying a lot of attention to me and I think that helped.
I describe myself as an aspiring artist and not an artist because I feel, right now, I'm still figuring out my style and stuff.
It has been difficult because I have been trying to create all sorts of things. And I feel I need a style to be recognised as an artist. Because you can recognise certain artists by the style of their work and I don't think you can do that with mine as yet. I want someone to see my piece and go, “That’s one of Felisha’s!”
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I was always clear that I wanted art to be part of my life. I think I can have a career as an artist, in graphic design.
Right now, I do painting and I create portraits. Mainly. I do still life drawings and create hand-drawn watercolour cards for any occasion. I did Valentine’s Day, Christmas, birthdays. In a graphic way, with calligraphy.
The best part about being an aspiring artist is I don’t like buying people stuff as gifts and, with art, you can create something special and unique for somebody and gift it. It’s nice to have that ability.
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I think it’s a sign to take care of myself. Because we are all naturally creative and for that to be at its full capacity, you have to be at your own best.
But I love it and dislike it at the same time. It is a beautiful place. But the people can be quite disappointing and backwards.
On the other hand, whether for wrong or right reasons, it honestly feels like there’s just one gigantic family crashing on the island.From right, Chief Secretary Farley Augustine, Dr Faith BYisrael, area representative, Belle Garden and Nathisha Charles-Pantin, secretary for Division of Food Security, National Resources, the Environment and Sustainable Development unveil the painting “Fisher Folk” by Avian Orr of Delaford at the North East Tobago UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Art Trail, Belle Garden Multipurpose Facility on Tuesday. - David Reid
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The works of nine of Tobago’s artists can now be seen publicly in communities within the Man and the Biosphere Forest Reserve as part of a pioneering initiative aimed at marrying concern for the environment with the talents of the island’s artists.
In October 2020, Tobago Main Ridge Forest Reserve, the oldest legally protected forest reserve in the Western Hemisphere, was awarded the prestigious UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Man and the Biosphere designation, becoming the largest UNESCO-branded site in the English-speaking Caribbean.
The Man and the Biosphere programme is an intergovernmental, scientific initiative which seeks to establish a scientific basis for enhancing the relationship between people and their environments.
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Tomley Roberts, president of the Tobago Visual Arts Association and contributor to the Art Trail, speaks at the launch. - David Reid
At the launch of the North East Tobago Art Trail on Tuesday at the Belle Garden Multipurpose Facility, project curator Tomley Roberts said the initiative was conceptualised about three years ago as part of a wider plan to have an artistic stamp on that part of the island.
Roberts, an art teacher at Speyside High School, said members of the ERIC (Environmental Research Institute, Charlotteville) team had meetings with village artists, students of Speyside High School and other stakeholders on ways to celebrate the designation.
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He said the first initiative was installing the life-sized Ah Ahwe Own sculpture at the Bloody Bay recreation site on June 7, 2022.
Roberts, who crafted the sculpture, said it symbolised the importance of the biosphere reserve in promoting harmony and synergy between communities and nature.
Roberts, whose painting Hand in Hand with the Environment is displayed in Delaford, told Sunday , “This is an important initiative that showcases our talent here in Tobago and also shows sensitivity to the environment, because these pieces are now installed within the Man and the Biosphere Forest Reserve, showing exactly what is our lifestyle and some of the things we do.”
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He singled out an Avion Orr painting, Fisher Folk, to highlight his point. It was unveiled at the launch by THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine, Secretary of Food Security, Natural Resources, the Environment and Sustainable Development Nathisha Charles-Pantin and Belle Garden/Glamorgan assemblyman Dr Faith BYisrael.
“The fishermen taking the boat out of the water is a part of our tradition, as is planting and dancing the cocoa. These are very important attributes of our cultural heritage that we have tried to immortalise, in a sense, because these are now permanent exhibitions and they would be featured throughout Tobago.”
The other artists involved so far are Jason Nedd, Earl Manswell, Chris Thomas, Coryse Wright-Kerr, Israel Melville, Quishang Jacob and Janina Awals.
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Roberts, who is also president of the Tobago Visual Arts Association, said visitors, when passing through northeast Tobago, will now have the opportunity to stop and take pictures of the pieces
“It will be like a nostalgic affair, to reminisce on some of the things that we have here in Tobago. All in all, it’s a whole development of the purple (creative arts) and orange (cultural goods and services) economy,
Ensuring that we use our cultural heritage and monetise it so that our artists and visitors coming to the island can benefit.”
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“Most people would have had the privilege of looking at artwork in a gallery, but now what we have done, and which I believe is very iconic in Tobago, is that we have now taken the art and brought it into the environment where people live. So they can now see the artwork and develop an appreciation for it.”
Saying the future looks bright, Roberts said, “We have a lot to look forward to in terms of the artistic development of the island.”
“We ought to spend more time and resources on those in the creative arts, and that includes the visual arts, ” he said.
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Augustine recalled many years ago, Tobagonians knew all the artists on the island, but he lamented this is no longer the case.
“At some point people started telling their children it is not a profession to get into, because you cannot make money from it, until you become an adult and you
