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Oil on Canvas” a term even artistic neophytes have heard and perhaps used. But has anyone heard of Bahamas on Canvas?
It’s not the medium, but the focus of the artwork of Anthony ‘Big Mo” Morley. Walk into Morley’s Art Studio and Gallery and the first thing that strikes you is not his medium, the size of the paintings or the cost, you are first struck by his subjects. The aquamarine hues of Bahamian waters are transferred through expert brush stokes on canvas. The sloops that spell nostalgia for older Bahamian sailors and regatta buffs show up in blues and whites, reds and yellows, greens and colors not quite invented yet. Coconuts, green and golden ripe, pop off the canvas and whisper something about coconut water mixed with sweet milk and your mouth waters. Sepia tones are used to remind us all that mummy used to carry bucket on her head and bake potato bread on banana leaves in the backyard dutch ovens. Red snappers and jacks jump off the canvas at Potter’s Cay fisherman clean them and pause to look at you and dare you to buy a kit.
All this on canvas at Morley’s Art Studio and Gallery. And, let not even begin that Bay Street has come to Tonique Williams-Darling Highway for Morley has taken the vibrant colors of Junkanoo and mixed them into images that inspire Bahamian pride and International admiration. If you’re wondering what you can expect to find when you step into Morley’s Art Studio and Gallery, here it is, in one word: Bahamas, then and now, on canvas using a mix of empowered brush strokes and palette knife techniques. After decades of dancing between the professions of photography, designing and painting, Morley has returned to the canvas full time and thank God.